High Nest
High Nest is a residential area in St John’s, Castlerigg and Wythburn, Cumberland, England. High Nest is situated nearby to the motorhome stopover Castlerigg Farm Camping and Caravan Site, as well as near the locality Castlerigg stone circle.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Low Rigg and Castlerigg Manor.
Low Rigg
Peak
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.
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.
High Rigg
Peak
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
High Rigg is a small fell located in the English Lake District, approximately three miles southeast of the town of Keswick. It occupies an unusual position, surrounded on all sides by higher fells but not connected by any obvious ridge.
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
Latitude
54.59529° or 54° 35′ 43″ northLongitude
-3.09943° or 3° 5′ 58″ westOpen location code
9C6RHWW2+46OpenStreetMap ID
way 636620181OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residential
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