High Scales Wood

High Scales Wood is a forest in Wasdale, Cumberland, England. High Scales Wood is situated nearby to the locality Woodhow, as well as near Ashness How.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buckbarrow and Whin Rigg.

Buckbarrow

Peak

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Buckbarrow is a small fell in the English Lake District overlooking the western end of Wastwater. It is featured in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells and is given a height of 1,410 ft approximately; however, the Ordnance Survey and other guidebooks now give an altitude of 423 m.

Whin Rigg

Peak

Photo: Ian Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Whin Rigg is a fell in the English Lake District, situated in the western segment of the national park, 22 kilometres south east of the town of Whitehaven.

Illgill Head

Peak

Photo: Archie424, Public domain.

Illgill Head is a fell in the English Lake District. It is known more commonly as the northern portion of the Wastwater Screes. The fell is 609 metres high and stands along the south-east shore of Wastwater, the deepest lake in England.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eskdale Green and Nether Wasdale.

Eskdale Green

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

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.

Nether Wasdale

Village

Photo: Peter Eckersley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Nether Wasdale is a village in Cumbria, England, located in the valley and civil parish of Wasdale, near the River Irt and just over a mile to the west of the Wastwater lake.