High Nest

High Nest is a residential area in St John’s, Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, England. High Nest is situated nearby to the archaeological site Castlerigg Roman Fort, as well as near the motorhome stopover Castlerigg Farm Camping and Caravan Site.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Low Rigg and St John’s Church, St John’s in the Vale.

Low Rigg

Peak

Photo: Antiquary, CC BY 4.0.

Low Rigg is a small hill in the English Lake District a few miles east of the town of Keswick and slightly north of its larger neighbour High Rigg. Geologically, Low Rigg is a lens-shaped laccolith consisting of an intrusion of a fine-grained granite.

St John’s Church, St John’s in the Vale

Church

Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John's Church is in the valley of St John's in the Vale, Cumbria, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Derwent, the archdeaconry of West Cumberland, and the diocese of Carlisle. St John’s Church, St John’s in the Vale is situated 1 mile east of High Nest.

Castlerigg Manor

Community center

Photo: Jackregan, Public domain.

Keswick is a civil parish and a town in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It contains 51 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Castlerigg Manor is situated 1 mile west of High Nest.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Castlerigg stone circle and Chestnut Hill.

Castlerigg stone circle

Locality

Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Castlerigg stone circle is situated on a prominent hill to the east of Keswick, in the Lake District National Park, North West England. In this period, the Lake District – a mountainous area in which Castlerigg is located – saw particularly high levels of Neolithic stone circle construction, with other similar examples including Swinside, Gamelands, Elva Plain, and Long Meg and Her Daughters.

Chestnut Hill

Suburb

Chestnut Hill is a suburb of Keswick, England, located along the A591 road. It contains the Nether Place Nursing Home and Claremont House, a 19th-century lodge which is an AA 4 diamond hotel.

Keswick

Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Keswick is the northern tourist hub of the Lake District National Park and is a favourite base for serious walkers and climbers, artists and photographers, and anyone who enjoys mountain and lake scenery.

High Nest

Type: Residential area
Location: St John’s, Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.59529° or 54° 35′ 43″ north

Longitude

-3.09943° or 3° 5′ 58″ west

Open location code

9C6RHWW2+46

OpenStreetMap ID

way 636620181

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

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