Castle Crag Slate Quarry

Castle Crag Slate Quarry is a quarry in Borrowdale, Cumberland, England. Castle Crag Slate Quarry is situated nearby to the archaeological site Castle Crag Hill Fort, as well as near the scenic viewpoint Standing Stones.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Castle Crag and Grange Fell.

Castle Crag

Peak

Photo: Stephen Horncastle, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet.

Grange Fell

Peak

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Grange Fell is a small fell in the English Lake District in the county of Cumbria, situated in the Borrowdale valley overlooking the villages of Grange in Borrowdale and Rosthwaite.

High Spy

Peak

Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.

High Spy is a fell in the English Lake District it is situated on the ridge that separates the Newlands Valley from Borrowdale, eight kilometres south of Keswick.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rosthwaite and Seatoller.

Rosthwaite

Village

Photo: Steve Mason, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Rosthwaite is a settlement in the Borrowdale parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, England. It is also in Borrowdale in the English Lake District to the south of Derwent Water.

Seatoller

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Seatoller is a hamlet in the civil parish of Borrowdale, in Cumbria, England. Part of the historic county of Cumberland, it lies on the B5289 road at the east foot of the Honister Pass and to the south of Derwent Water.

Stonethwaite

Hamlet

Photo: Antiquary, CC BY 4.0.

Stonethwaite is a small village in the Lake District in the English county of Cumbria, historically part of Cumberland, it is situated in the valley of the Stonethwaite Beck, a side valley of Borrowdale, and within the Lake District National Park. Stonethwaite is situated 1½ miles southeast of Castle Crag Slate Quarry.

Castle Crag Slate Quarry

Type: Quarry
Category: industry
Location: Borrowdale, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.53299° or 54° 31′ 59″ north

Longitude

-3.16093° or 3° 9′ 39″ west

Open location code

9C6RGRMQ+5J

OpenStreetMap ID

way 457015986

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=quarry

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Highlights include Castle Crag Hill Fort and Standing Stones.

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