Shap

Shap is a place with 1221 ( as of 2001) residents in Cumbria in North West England. The place has since the 17th century market rights.

The place is now on the West Coast Main Line railway. This part of the railway line was inaugurated on 17 December 1846 under the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. The then also opened railway station was closed in 1968.

The place is known for Shap Summit and his passport, on which both the motorway (54 ° 30 ' N, 2 ° 39' W54.502645 - 2.645473 ) and the railway line (54 ° 30 ' N, 2 ° 40' W54 .493623-2.664785278.5 ) leads. For steam locomotives, the rise in the north was with a slope of 1:75 is often too large, so locomotives were stationed as a support in Tebay.

In Shap a designated place after the pink granite is mined. The grave hill Hill of Skulls located in the north of the village.