Heads Wood
Heads Wood is a forest in Drigg and Carleton, Cumberland, England. Heads Wood is situated nearby to the village Holmrook, as well as near the locality Square Covert.Places of Interest
Highlights include Drigg railway station and Muncaster Mill railway station.
Drigg railway station
Railway station
Photo: William Barker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Drigg is a railway station on the Cumbrian Coast Line, which runs between Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness. The station, situated 31 miles north-west of Barrow-in-Furness, serves the villages of Drigg and Holmrook in Cumbria.
Muncaster Mill railway station
Railway station
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Muncaster Mill railway station is a railway station on the 15 in gauge Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway in Cumbria, England. The station is located 1 mile from Ravenglass and 6 miles from Dalegarth, at the point where the A595 coast road crosses the line.
Irton Cross
Archaeological site
Photo: Dougsim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Irton Cross is an Anglo-Saxon cross in the graveyard of St Paul's Church, in the parish of Irton with Santon, Cumbria, England. Dating from the early 9th century, it lies chronologically between the Bewcastle Cross and the Gosforth cross and has greater affinity with the earlier Anglo-Roman style of Bewcastle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Seascale and Eskdale Green.
Seascale
Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Seascale is a village and civil parish on the Irish Sea coast of Cumbria, England, historically within Cumberland. The parish had a population of 1,754 in 2011, barely decreasing by 0.4% in 2021.
Eskdale Green
Eskdale Green is a small village in Cumbria at one end of the Eskdale Valley. The hamlet of Boot has an old corn mill in the heart but wander south away from the mill to find the little old church by the river.
Ravenglass
Village
Photo: Rob Noble, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ravenglass is an English coastal village in west Cumbria that lies between Barrow-in-Furness and Whitehaven, on the estuary of three rivers: the Esk, Mite and Irt.
Heads Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Drigg and Carleton, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.3839° or 54° 23′ 2″ northLongitude
-3.4171° or 3° 25′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C6R9HMM+H5OpenStreetMap ID
way 340260697OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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