Cave Wood
Cave Wood is a forest in Glassonby, Westmorland and Furness, England. Cave Wood is situated nearby to the locality Maughanby, as well as near Kirk Bank.Places of Interest
Highlights include Long Meg and Her Daughters and Little Meg.
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.
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.
Lacy’s Caves
Cave
Photo: Charles Rispin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lacy's Caves are a series of five chambers in the red sandstone cliff of the River Eden, just north of Little Salkeld, Cumbria, England, near Nunnery, Cumbria, at grid reference NY564383.
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.
Kirkoswald
Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkoswald is a village, civil parish, and former market town located in Westmorland and Furness, England, about 9 miles from Penrith. The village is in the historic county of Cumberland.
Cave Wood
Latitude
54.7344° or 54° 44′ 4″ northLongitude
-2.6738° or 2° 40′ 26″ westOpen location code
9C6VP8MG+QFOpenStreetMap ID
way 283207189OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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