Dowthwaite Head Moss

Dowthwaite Head Moss is in Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness, England. Dowthwaite Head Moss is situated nearby to the locality Lurge Crag, as well as near Dowthwaite Crag.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Dodd and Hart Side.

Great Dodd

Peak

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Great Dodd is a mountain or fell in the English Lake District. It stands on the main ridge of the Helvellyn range, a line of mountains which runs in a north–south direction between the lakes of Thirlmere and Ullswater in the east of the Lake District.

Hart Side

Peak

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Hart Side is a subsidiary top on one of the east ridges of Stybarrow Dodd, which is a mountain in the English Lake District, west of Ullswater on the main Helvellyn ridge in the Eastern Fells.

Stybarrow Dodd

Peak

Photo: Silence-is-infinite, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Stybarrow Dodd is a mountain or fell in the English Lake District. It stands immediately north of Sticks Pass on the main ridge of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells, which is situated between the lakes of Thirlmere and the Ullswater.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenridding and Legburthwaite.

Glenridding

Photo: Gareth James, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glenridding is a village at the southern end of Ullswater, in the English Lake District. The village is popular with mountain walkers who can scale England's third-highest mountain, Helvellyn, and many other challenging peaks from there.

Legburthwaite

Village

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Legburthwaite is a village in the Cumberland district, in the county of Cumbria. It is located on the A591 road and the B5322 road. Legburthwaite has a disused place of worship and formerly, a youth hostel. It is just north of Thirlmere.

Threlkeld

Village

Photo: Ian Capper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Threlkeld is a village and civil parish in the north of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, to the east of Keswick. It is in the historic county of Cumberland.

Dowthwaite Head Moss

Type: Wetland
Category: body of water
Location: Matterdale, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.5772° or 54° 34′ 38″ north

Longitude

-2.9954° or 2° 59′ 44″ west

Open location code

9C6VH2G3+VR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 505612662

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wetland

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