Longbank Wood
Longbank Wood is a forest in Glassonby, Westmorland and Furness, England. Longbank Wood is situated nearby to the village Little Salkeld, as well as near Great Salkeld.Places of Interest
Highlights include Long Meg and Her Daughters and Little Meg.
Long Meg and Her Daughters
Archaeological site
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Longbank Wood
Latitude
54.7282° or 54° 43′ 41″ north
Longitude
-2.6779° or 2° 40′ 40″ west
Open location code
9C6VP8HC+7V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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