Slight Side, Lake District National Park

Name: Slight Side
Address: Lake District National Park, United Kingdom

#27 among attractions in Lake District National Park

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Slight Side is a fell in the English Lake District it stands 25 kilometres east southeast of the town of Whitehaven and reaches a height of 762 m. Slight Side lies at the south western edge of the Scafell Massif, a four-kilometre-long crescent of high ground which includes the highest ground in England. The fells names derives from the Old Norse language and means "The mountain shieling with the level pastures", it is a combination of the Norse words "sletta" and "saetr". With a shieling meaning a shepherds hut or a mountain pasture used in the summer. ()

Coordinates: 54°26'4"N, 3°13'11"W

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Slight Side – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bowfell, Sca Fell, Scafell Pike, Hardknott Roman Fort.

2.3 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Bowfell, Lake District National Park
60 min walk • Bowfell is a pyramid-shaped mountain lying at the heart of the English Lake District, in the Southern Fells area. It is the sixth-highest mountain in the Lake District and one of the most popular of the Lake District fells for walkers.
1.1 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Sca Fell, Lake District National Park
28 min walk • Scafell is a mountain in the English Lake District, part of the Southern Fells. Its height of 964 metres makes it the second-highest mountain in England after its neighbour Scafell Pike, from which it is separated by Mickledore col.
1.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Scafell Pike, Lake District National Park
36 min walk • Scafell Pike is the highest and the most prominent mountain in England, at an elevation of 978 metres above sea level. It is located in the Lake District National Park, in Cumbria, and is part of the Southern Fells and the Scafell massif.
2.3 miS
Ruins, Archaeological site
Hardknott Roman Fort, Eskdale Green
58 min walk • Hardknott Roman Fort is an archeological site, the remains of the Roman fort Mediobogdum, located on the western side of the Hardknott Pass in the English county of Cumbria.
2.6 miNW
Church, Historical place
Church of St Olaf, Lake District National Park
67 min walk • St Olaf's Church in Wasdale Head, Cumbria, is England's smallest parish church. The earliest record of the church is from 1550, though it probably predates this, and it is likely that there was an earlier church on this site.
1.9 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Lingmell, Lake District National Park
50 min walk • Lingmell is a fell in the English Lake District, standing above the village of Wasdale Head. It is an outlier on the north-west flank of Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain.
2.7 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Angle Tarn, Lake District National Park
69 min walk • Angle Tarn is a tarn to the north of Bowfell in the English Lake District. It drains into Langstrath Beck. This should not be confused with Angle Tarn, a larger lake with the same name about 11.5 miles to the south-west, also within the Lake District National Park.
1.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Burnmoor Tarn
43 min walk • Burnmoor Tarn, on Eskdale Fell in Cumbria, England, is one of the largest entirely natural tarns in the Lake District. Its waters flow into Whillan Beck at the tarn's north-eastern corner, which immediately turns south and flows into Eskdale, joining the Esk at Beckfoot.
0.9 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Foxes Tarn, Lake District National Park
23 min walk • Foxes Tarn is one of the smallest named tarns in the Lake District of England, situated slightly to the east of the summit of Sca Fell.
2.5 miW
Hill
Illgill Head, Eskdale Green
64 min walk • Illgill Head is a fell in the English Lake District. It is known more commonly as the northern portion of the Wastwater Screes. The fell is 609 metres high and stands along the south-east shore of Wastwater, the deepest lake in England.
2.1 miSE
Hill
Hard Knott, Lake District National Park
55 min walk • Hard Knott is a fell in the English Lake District, at the head of Eskdale.