Great Wood

Great Wood is a forest in Satterthwaite, Westmorland and Furness, England. Great Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Middle Dale Park, as well as near High Dale Park.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hill Top and All Saints Church.

Hill Top

Photo: Chris Brown, CC BY 2.0.

Hill Top is a 17th-century house in Near Sawrey near Hawkshead, in the English county of Cumbria. It is an example of Lakeland vernacular architecture with random stone walls and slate roof.

Carron Crag

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Carron Crag is a small fell in Grizedale Forest in the English Lake District with a height of 314 metres. Adjacent to the trig point is a large panopticon sculpture, one of over 70 in the forest.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hawkshead and Near and Far Sawrey.

Hawkshead

Photo: Nessy-Pic, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hawkshead is a picturesque village in Lake District National Park. It is the smallest true town in Britain.

Near Sawrey and Far Sawrey are two neighbouring villages in the Furness area of Cumbria, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, both are located in the Lake District between the village of Hawkshead and the lake of Windermere.

Rusland

Village

Photo: mauldy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rusland is a village in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It is located just to the southwest of Crosslands in the civil parish of Colton. The writer Arthur Ransome is buried in the churchyard of the parish church.

Great Wood

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

54.3248° or 54° 19′ 29″ north

Longitude

-3.004° or 3° 0′ 14″ west

Open location code

9C6R8XFW+WC

OpenStreetMap ID

way 166769818

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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