Shap
| Shap | |||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 32 ′ N , 2 ° 41 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 1221 (2001) | ||
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| Post town | PENRITH | ||
| ZIP code section | CA10 | ||
| prefix | 01931 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | North West England | ||
| Shire county | Cumbria | ||
| District | Eden | ||
| Civil Parish | Shap | ||
| British Parliament | Penrith and the Border | ||
Shap is a place with 1221 (2001) inhabitants in Cumbria in the north west of England. The place has had market rights since the 17th century.
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Street
Shap is close to England's longest motorway, the M6 , and is connected to it via the Shap / Hardendale junction 1 km south . To the north and south of this junction, the motorway is divided into separate, spatially separated lanes due to the terrain.
The A6 trunk road crosses the town.
rail
The place is now on the West Coast Main Line of the railway. This section of the line opened on December 17, 1846 as the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway . The station, which was also established at the time, was closed again in 1968.
The place is known for the Shap Summit , a terrain pass over which both the motorway and the railway line lead. The ascent to the north with a gradient of 1:75 was often too steep for steam locomotives, so locomotives were stationed as support in Tebay .
Hiking trails
On the Coast to Coast Walk , which Shap crosses, the place is a stage destination according to the classic division and roughly marks the western third.
Others
At Shap, a pink granite named after the place is mined. The Hill of Skulls burial mound is to the north of the village, east of the Castlehowe Scar stone circle .
Web links
- Shap Cumbria Community website
- Shap on The Cumbria Directory
Individual evidence
- ^ Office for National Statistics: Census 2001: Parish Headcounts: Eden.Retrieved February 21, 2011
- ↑ Granite ( Memento of 16 July 2011 at the Internet Archive ) Article of the Department of Earth Sciences of the University College London