Birks Wood
Birks Wood is a forest in Wasdale, Cumberland, England. Birks Wood is situated nearby to the locality Berry How, as well as near the village Nether Wasdale.Places of Interest
Highlights include Buckbarrow and Irton Pike.
Buckbarrow
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buckbarrow is a small fell in the English Lake District overlooking the western end of Wastwater. It is featured in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells and is given a height of 1,410 ft approximately; however, the Ordnance Survey and other guidebooks now give an altitude of 423 m.
Irton Pike
Peak
Irton Pike is a hill in the west of the English Lake District, near Santon Bridge, Cumbria. It is the subject of a chapter of Alfred Wainwright's book The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.
St Michael & All Angels, Nether Wasdale
Church
Photo: David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael & All Angels' Church in Nether Wasdale, Cumbria, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Calder, and the diocese of Carlisle. Its benefice is Gosforth and Wasdale. The church is a Grade II* listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eskdale Green and Nether Wasdale.
Eskdale Green
Nether Wasdale
Village
Photo: Peter Eckersley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nether Wasdale is a village in Cumbria, England, located in the valley and civil parish of Wasdale, near the River Irt and just over a mile to the west of the Wastwater lake.
Santon Bridge
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Santon Bridge is a small village in Cumberland, Cumbria, England, at a bridge over the River Irt. The civil parish is called Irton with Santon. The population of this civil parish as at the 2011 census was 316.
Birks Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Wasdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.424° or 54° 25′ 27″ northLongitude
-3.3598° or 3° 21′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C6RCJFR+J3OpenStreetMap ID
way 163253667OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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