Seathwaite, Cumberland
Seathwaite is a small hamlet in the Borrowdale civil parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England.

Seathwaite is a small hamlet in the Borrowdale civil parish of Cumberland, Cumbria, North West England. It is in the Lake District near Scafell Pike and 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Keswick at the end of a minor road that heads southwest from the hamlet of Seatoller, which is where the B5289 road begins its steep climb up the pass to Honister Hause on the boundary between Borrowdale civil parish and Buttermere civil parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Seathwaite, Cumberland
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Great Gable
Great Gable is a mountain in the Lake District, United Kingdom. It is named after its appearance as a pyramid from Wasdale, though it is dome-shaped from most other directions.
2.8 km · mountain in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Glaramara
Glaramara is a fell in the English Lake District in Cumbria. It is a substantial fell that is part of a long ridge that stretches for over six kilometres from Stonethwaite in Borrowdale up to the important mountain pass of Esk Hause.
1.8 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Great End
Great End is the most northerly mountain in the Scafell chain, in the English Lake District. From the south it is simply a lump continuing this chain.
3.6 km · mountain in the Scafell chain, in the English Lake District · Wikipedia - 04Honister Pass
Honister Pass is a mountain pass in the Lake District in Cumbria, England. It is located on the B5289 road, linking Seatoller, in the valley of Borrowdale, to Gatesgarth at the southern end of Buttermere.
2 km · Mountain pass in England · Wikipedia - 05Innominate Tarn
Innominate Tarn is a small tarn in the north of the Lake District National Park in England. It is situated at 520 metres above sea level, near the summit of Haystacks.
3.9 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06Styhead Tarn
Styhead Tarn is a tarn in the English Lake District, near the top of the Sty Head pass at the head of Borrowdale. It is on the route from Wasdale to Borrowdale and is, therefore, a well-visited point in the Lake District.
2.4 km · tarn in the English Lake District · Wikipedia - 07Sprinkling Tarn
Sprinkling Tarn is a body of water at the foot of Great End, in the Southern Fells in Lake District, 3 kilometres from Seathwaite, Cumbria, England. It is noted for its trout and an introduced rare fish, vendace.
2.8 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Dale Head
Dale Head is a fell in the north-western sector of the Lake District, in northern England. It is 753 metres above sea level and stands immediately north of Honister Pass, the road between Borrowdale and Buttermere.
3.7 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 09Allen Crags
Allen Crags is a fell in the English Lake District, it lies in a group of very popular hills and is regarded as part of the Scafell group of fells. It is a hill that is frequently traversed by walkers along its ridge but is seldom climbed as the sole objective.
3.3 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 10Base Brown
Base Brown is a fell in England's Lake District, near the head of the Borrowdale Valley. It forms one side of the Seathwaite Valley, and on the western side it is flanked by the hanging valley of Gillercomb.
1.1 km · mountain in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
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Getting to Seathwaite, Cumberland
- Airports
- Isle of Man (IOM), 104 km · Newcastle (NCL), 113 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 121 km
- Castletown → Seathwaite, Cumberland106 km · quickest by road, 7h 31m · $19–26
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Seathwaite, Cumberland114 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · £13–18
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Seathwaite, Cumberland132 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £20–26
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Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Seathwaite, Cumberland. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Seathwaite, Cumberland
- Stonethwaitevillage in Cumbria, England3.3 km
- Seatollerhamlet in Cumbria, England, UK2.2 km
- Rosthwaitehamlet in Borrowdale, Cumbria, United Kingdom3.8 km