Heights Tarn
Heights Tarn is a small lake to the east of Windermere and north of Simpson Ground Reservoir, near Cartmel Fell, in the Lake District of Cumbria, England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Middle Tarn and Sow How Tarn.
Middle Tarn
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Middle Tarn is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Heights Tarn.
Sow How Tarn
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sow How Tarn is situated 1,800 feet south of Heights Tarn.
Gummer’s How
Peak
Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gummer's How is a hill in the southern part of the Lake District, on the eastern shore of Windermere, near its southern end. How, derived from the Old Norse word haugr, is a common local term for a hill or mound.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cartmel Fell and Bowland Bridge.
Cartmel Fell
Village
Photo: George Hopkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cartmel Fell is a hamlet and a civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 309, increasing at the 2011 census to 329.
Bowland Bridge
Village
Photo: Michael Cannell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bowland Bridge is a village in Cumbria, England.
Lakeside
Hamlet
Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lakeside is a village in Newby Bridge at the south end of Windermere, England. Now in the county of Cumbria, before county reorganisation of 1974 it was in Lancashire, as part of the region known as Furness. Lakeside is situated 1½ miles southwest of Heights Tarn.
Heights Tarn
- Type: Body of water
- Description: tarn in Cumbria, England, UK
- Category: tarn
- Location: Staveley-in-Cartmel, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.2883° or 54° 17′ 18″ northLongitude
-2.92204° or 2° 55′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C6V73QH+85OpenStreetMap ID
way 424599713OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterWikidata ID
Q5699115
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Heights Plantation and North Plantation.
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