High Spy

#3248 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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High Spy is a fell in the English Lake District it is situated on the ridge that separates the Newlands Valley from Borrowdale, eight kilometres south of Keswick. ()

Elevation: 2142 ftCoordinates: 54°32'8"N, 3°11'7"W

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High Spy – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bowder Stone, Castle Crag, Hindscarth, Dale Head.

1.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Rock
Bowder Stone, Borrowdale
32 min walk • The Bowder Stone is a large andesite lava boulder, that fell 200 metres from the Bowder Crag on Kings How between 13,500 and 10,000 years ago. The stone is situated in Borrowdale, Cumbria, England, at grid reference NY25401639.
0.6 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Castle Crag
17 min walk • Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet.
1.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Hindscarth
30 min walk • Hindscarth is a mountain between the valleys of Buttermere and Newlands, in the north-western part of the English Lake District.
0.9 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Dale Head
23 min walk • Dale Head is a fell in the north-western sector of the Lake District, in northern England. It is 753 metres or 2,470 feet above sea level and stands immediately north of Honister Pass, the road between Borrowdale and Buttermere.
1.2 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Maiden Moor
31 min walk • Maiden Moor is a fell in the English Lake District, it stands 6 km south of the town of Keswick and is part of the high ground that separates the Newlands Valley and Borrowdale, it has a modest height of 576 m and so fails to be mentioned on many UK mountain lists but it does...
1 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Forts and castles
Castle Crag, Borrowdale
25 min walk • Castle Crag is a hill in the North Western Fells of the English Lake District. It is the smallest hill included in Alfred Wainwright's influential Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells, the only Wainwright below 1,000 feet.
1.1 miE
View point, Natural attraction, Cave
Millican Dalton Cave, Borrowdale
27 min walk • Millican Dalton was a British self-styled "Professor of Adventure".