Whitbysteads Wood

Whitbysteads Wood is a forest in Askham, Westmorland and Furness, England. Whitbysteads Wood is situated nearby to the locality Crackhill Nook, as well as near Howe Gill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lowther Castle and Heughscar Hill.

Lowther Castle

Photo: Burtonsi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lowther Castle is a ruined country house in Lowther, Cumbria, England. The estate has belonged to the Lowther family, latterly the earls of Lonsdale, since the Middle Ages.

Heughscar Hill is a hill in the east of the English Lake District, east of Ullswater and north of High Street, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.

Ring cairn on Askham Fell including The Cop Stone

Stone

Photo: Gpwitteveen, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Helton and Pooley Bridge.

Helton

Village

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Helton is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the English county of Cumbria. It is about a mile south of the village of Askham. Circa 1870, it had a population of 180 as recorded in the Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales.

Pooley Bridge

Village

Photo: Tony Peacock, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Pooley Bridge is a village in the Westmorland and Furness of the northwestern English county of Cumbria, within the traditional borders of Westmorland.

Bampton

Village

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bampton is a village and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area of Cumbria, England, on the edge of the Lake District National Park.

Whitbysteads Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Askham, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.5987° or 54° 35′ 56″ north

Longitude

-2.7683° or 2° 46′ 6″ west

Open location code

9C6VH6XJ+FM

OpenStreetMap ID

way 147250000

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Crackhill Nook and Howe Gill.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Potlands Plantation and High Donald Wood.

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