Shap is a village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England.

Shap polished pink granite can be found in many buildings in the UK, including outside St Paul's Cathedral in London.

There is also a small library, which is in the process of being relinquished from local council control and being adopted by the community as part of a budget cutting measure.

On 22 October 1999, a Hawk jet from RAF Leeming crashed into an empty barn in the village before disintegrating across the A6 and West Coast railway line, killing its two-man crew.

Shap Fell used to be notorious for the difficult and dangerous stretch of A6 for drivers, and it includes a well-known section of the West Coast Main Line.

It has been popular with railway photographers and there have been many pictures published taken in the area, most notably at Scout Green which lies on the southern approach to the hill.

In 1659 the book's protagonist Hal Burnaby, a young Royalist, rides through the village on a clandestine mission connected with the restoration of King Charles II.

The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (now part of the West Coast Main Line), opened on 17 December 1846, and runs along the eastern edge of the village.