China Plantation

China Plantation is a forest in Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, England. China Plantation is situated nearby to the locality Moor Gate, as well as near Thurston.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brantwood and Hawkshead Grammar School.

Brantwood

Museum

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Brantwood is a historic house museum in Cumbria, England, overlooking Coniston Water. It has been the home to a number of prominent individuals. The house and grounds are administered by a charitable trust, the house serving as a museum dedicated to John Ruskin, one of its final owners.

Hawkshead Grammar School

Museum

Photo: FFNick, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Hawkshead Grammar School in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England was founded in 1585 by Archbishop Edwin Sandys, the incumbent Archbishop of York, whose family came from the Hawkshead area.

Esthwaite Water

Lake

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Esthwaite Water is one of the smaller and lesser known lakes in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. It is situated between the much larger lakes of Windermere and Coniston Water in the Furness area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Coniston and Satterthwaite.

Coniston

Photo: Tompage02, Public domain.

Coniston is a picturesque lakeside village in the Lake District National Park. Coniston sits next to Coniston Water, the Lake District's third largest lake is the home to many attempts at the world water speed record.

Satterthwaite

Village

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Satterthwaite is a small village with around 50 dwellings situated in Grizedale, a valley in the Lake District, England, about four miles south of Hawkshead.

Near and Far Sawrey

Village

Photo: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Near Sawrey and Far Sawrey are two neighbouring villages in the Furness area of Cumbria, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, both are located in the Lake District between the village of Hawkshead and the lake of Windermere.

China Plantation

Type: Forest
Location: Hawkshead, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.3596° or 54° 21′ 35″ north

Longitude

-3.0275° or 3° 1′ 39″ west

Open location code

9C6R9X5C+RX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 61956940

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Monk Coniston Moor and Moor Gale.

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