- Shap
Shap is a
linear village located amongstfell s and isolated dales in Eden district,Cumbria ,England . The village lies along theA6 road and is near to theM6 motorway . It is situated 10 miles from Penrith and about 15 miles fromKendal .Description
The village has four
pubs , a smallsupermarket , a fish & chip shop, an ethnic restaurant, Mango, (Mexican, Italian, Turkish and Caribbean), a butcher's shop, aprimary school , newsagents, café, ceramic art studio called Edge Ceramics, a joint police andfire station , bank, a shoe shop and both Anglican andMethodist churches. TheWest Coast Main Line , opened in 1846, runs along the eastern edge of the village butShap railway station was closed many years ago, though there have been recent calls for its re-opening. To the southern end of the village is a factory producingsausage s; other major employers in the area are the Hanson and Coruslimestone quarries and the RMC Shap Granite quarries. Until the late 1990s there was a small factory making shoes in the centre of the village.Although Shap is a small village, technically it is a
market town with a charter dating from the 17th century. The parish was, between 1905 and 1935, administered by anurban district council. At one time, the granite works (which are situated about a mile outside the village) was in itself a separate community, with its own Co-op store.The
civil parish of Shap (formerly Shap Urban Parish) includes the hamlet of Keld and parts of the granite works and Corus limestone works. The parish shares a joint parish council withShap Rural .Shap is on the route of the
Coast to Coast Walk . Some of the scenes in the feature film "Withnail and I ", which is set in nearby Penrith, were filmed in and around Shap.Sleddale Hall , the filming location for Uncle Monty's cottage Crow Crag, is located nearWet Sleddale Reservoir .Dialect
The people of Shap speak a variant of the Penrithian dialect, which is itself a variant of the
Cumbrian dialect spoken around the Penrith and Eden district area.Attractions
Shap Summit is located on the motorway at gbmappingsmall|NY583120 and the railway at gbmappingsmall|NY570110.
Shap Fell gbmappingsmall|NY530088 is known for Shap
granite [cite web |url = http://www.es.ucl.ac.uk/schools/Glossary/granite.htm |title = Shap granite] that is a pink rock rich inorthoclase ,quartz andbiotite ; Shap Pink Quarry gbmappingsmall|NY557083 takes its name from this.Shap Abbey gbmappingsmall|NY547151 is also nearby.References
External links
* [http://www.fellhouse.com Fell House Guest House]
* [http://www.mangolive.co.uk Mango eatery]
* [http://www.edgeceramics.co.uk Edge Ceramics]
*oscoor gbx|NY563150 - the village
* [http://www.shapcumbria.info www.shapcumbria.info]Location Grid
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