Leadgate is a small hamlet located at the foot of Hartside Fell between the town of
Alston and the village of
Garrigill
Garrigill, Cumbria is a small village in the North Pennine region of the UK, situated on the banks and close to the source of the River South Tyne. Historically part of Cumberland, today it is within the Garrigill ward of the civil parish of Al ...
in the parish of
Alston Moor
Alston Moor, formerly known as Alston with Garrigill, is a civil parish and electoral ward in Cumbria, England, based around the small town of Alston. It is set in the moorlands of the North Pennines, mostly at an altitude of over 1000 feet. T ...
in
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. C ...
, England. It was the location of the earliest named mill on Alston Moor, referred to as Blackburn Mill in 1590, situated on the Black Burn
beck and still shown as a corn mill on the 1861 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map.
The Hartside
Fell
A fell (from Old Norse ''fell'', ''fjall'', "mountain"Falk and Torp (2006:161).) is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain or moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, Iceland, the Isle of Man, pa ...
is a prominent feature of the area. The cafe on the top of
Hartside Pass, west of the hamlet, claimed to be the highest cafe in England at 575m. The cafe burnt down in 2018.
Hartside Pass, Cumbria
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Hamlets in Cumbria
Eden District
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