Turnmoor Head Woods
Turnmoor Head Woods is a forest in Ousby, Westmorland and Furness, England. Turnmoor Head Woods is situated nearby to the village Melmerby, as well as near Gamblesby.Places of Interest
Highlights include Little Meg and Long Meg and Her Daughters.
Little Meg
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Little Meg is a small circle of large kerb stones which probably surrounded a Bronze Age kerb cairn. It is close to the village of Langwathby to the north-east of Penrith in the English county of Cumbria and is 650 metres north-east of the more famous stone circle of Long Meg and Her Daughters.
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Archaeological site
Photo: Tumulus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Long Meg and Her Daughters is a Neolithic stone circle situated north-east of Penrith near Little Salkeld in Cumbria, North West England. One of around 1,300 stone circles in the British Isles and Brittany, it was constructed as a part of a megalithic tradition that emerged during Neolithic, and continued into the Early Bronze Age.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eden Valley and Glassonby.
Eden Valley
Photo: Nachosan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Eden Valley runs northward through the county of Cumbria from its source high on the fells at Mallerstang and enters the sea 91 miles later at Carlisle.
Glassonby
Village
Photo: Peter McDermott, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Glassonby is a small village and civil parish in the Eden Valley, in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England. It lies about 3 miles south south east of Kirkoswald.
Melmerby
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melmerby is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. It is a small village with a population of around 200. The village is 9 miles to the east of Penrith, which is a thriving community with immediate access to Junction 40 of the M6 motorway and a main-line railway station serving London, Manchester, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Turnmoor Head Woods
- Type: Forest
- Location: Ousby, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.7284° or 54° 43′ 42″ northLongitude
-2.6161° or 2° 36′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C6VP9HM+9GOpenStreetMap ID
way 205743975OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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