Castlehead Wood
Castlehead Wood is a forest in Keswick, Cumberland, England. Castlehead Wood is situated nearby to the locality Castlerigg Gardens, as well as near The Ings.Places of Interest
Highlights include Derwent Pencil Museum and Walla Crag.
Derwent Pencil Museum
Museum
Photo: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Derwent Pencil Museum is a museum dedicated to the manufacturing and history of pencils, located in Keswick, in the north-west of England.
Walla Crag
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Walla Crag is a fell in the English Lake District, near Keswick. The fell is a short walk from Keswick and overlooks Derwentwater.
Theatre by the Lake
Theater building
Photo: Phil Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Theatre by the Lake is situated on the shores of Derwentwater in the Lake District in Keswick, Cumbria, England. It opened in 1999, replacing the mobile Century Theatre, and was made possible by an Arts Council Lottery Fund Grant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Castlerigg stone circle and Portinscale.
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.
Portinscale
Village
Photo: Michael Graham, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portinscale is a village in Cumbria, England, close to the western shore of Derwentwater in the Lake District National Park 1+1⁄2 miles from Keswick. For administrative purposes, Portinscale lies within the civil parish of Above Derwent, the unitary authority of Cumberland, and the ceremonial county of Cumbria.
Applethwaite
Village
Photo: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Applethwaite is a village in the foothills of Skiddaw near Keswick in the English Lake District. It is in the county of Cumbria, and forms part of the civil parish of Underskiddaw, which has a population of 282.
Castlehead Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Keswick, Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.5944° or 54° 35′ 40″ northLongitude
-3.1318° or 3° 7′ 54″ westOpen location code
9C6RHVV9+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
way 83015346OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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