Leadgate is a small hamlet located at the foot of Hartside Fell between the town of
Alston and the village of
Garrigill in the parish of
Alston Moor
Alston Moor, formerly known as Alston with Garrigill, is a civil parish and electoral ward in the Westmorland and Furness district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, based around the small town of Alston. It is set in the moorlan ...
in
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial county in North West England. It borders the Scottish council areas of Dumfries and Galloway and Scottish Borders to the north, Northumberland and County Durham to the east, North Yorkshire to the south-east, Lancash ...
, 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
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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 Moorland, moor-covered hill. The term is most often employed in Fennoscandia, Iceland, the Isle of M ...
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, with a replacement being granted planning permission in 2024.
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Hamlets in Cumbria
Westmorland and Furness
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