Buckbarrow, Eskdale Green

Name: Buckbarrow
Address: Eskdale Green, United Kingdom

#11 among attractions in Eskdale Green

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Buckbarrow is a small fell in the English Lake District overlooking the western end of Wastwater. It is featured in Alfred Wainwright’s Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells and is given a height of 1,410 ft approximately; however, the Ordnance Survey and other guidebooks now give an altitude of 423 m. The fell’s name means ‘The hill of the buck or goat’. It is derived either from the Old English word bucc meaning buck or the Old Norse word bokki meaning a male goat. ()

Coordinates: 54°26'35"N, 3°20'3"W

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Eskdale Green United Kingdom

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Buckbarrow – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Wast Water, Church of St Olaf, Giggle Alley, Haycock.

1.7 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Wast Water
43 min walk • Wast Water is a spectacular and serene lake nestled in the remote western reaches of the Lake District National Park in the United Kingdom. With its dramatic and rugged beauty, Wast Water holds the title of the deepest lake in England, plunging to depths of nearly 260...
3.6 miNE
Church, Historical place
Church of St Olaf, Lake District National Park
93 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.
3.6 miS
Park
Giggle Alley, Eskdale Green
93 min walk • Giggle Alley is a woodland in Eskdale Green, Cumbria, England. It was formerly part of the Gate House estate. The wood includes the ruins of a Japanese garden, created in 1914 as part of the estate. It was laid out by the team of Thomas Hayton Mawson.
3 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Haycock
78 min walk • Haycock is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District. It rises between Scoat Fell and Caw Fell to the south of Ennerdale and the north of Wasdale.
3.6 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Blea Tarn, Eskdale Green
93 min walk • Blea Tarn is a lake in Cumbria, England, located about half a mile north of Beckfoot. Located at an elevation of 217 m, the lake has an area of 3.3 hectares and measures 277 m × 150 m, with a maximum depth of 11 m.
3.2 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Burnmoor Tarn
81 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.
3 miN
Hill
Caw Fell, Lake District National Park
78 min walk • Caw Fell is a fell in the English Lake District, standing between Haycock the Lank Rigg group. It occupies a wide upland area with Ennerdale to the north and Blengdale to the south.
2.2 miE
Hill
Illgill Head, Eskdale Green
57 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.
1.2 miNE
Hill
Middle Fell, Eskdale Green
30 min walk • Middle Fell is a hill or fell in the English Lake District. It is a satellite of Seatallan standing above the northern shore of Wastwater.
1.4 miN
Hill
Seatallan, Eskdale Green
37 min walk • Seatallan is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District. It is rounded, grassy and fairly unassuming, occupying a large amount of land.
3.7 miN
Mountain
Iron Crag
94 min walk • Iron Crag is a mountain in the English Lake District, standing between Crag Fell and Caw Fell. The name of the fell is the source of some confusion, as the summit is unnamed on Ordnance Survey maps.