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Route outline for walk ny109:

Ribblehead  -  Blea Moor  -  Force Gill  -  Grain Ing  -  Whernside  -  Broadrake Farm  -  Ivescar Farm  -  Ribblehead.

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Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:

The Ribblehead Viaduct's 24 arches carry the famous Settle to Carlisle Railway Line for 400m some 30m above the surrounding countryside. Considered one of the great engineering feats of the 19th Century, there is a museum dedicated to the history of the line housed in Ribblehead Station.

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Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

1 English Mountain

0 Wainwrights

1 English Nuttall

0 English Deweys

0 Wainwright Outlying Fells

1 Marilyn

0 Bridgets

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Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is Whernside at 736m (2415ft). Whernside is the highest point in The Yorkshire Dales National Park and the highest point in the county of North Yorkshire.

Whernside is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (78th highest in England, 133rd highest in England & Wales). Whernside is also known as an English Nuttall (96th highest in England, 163rd highest in England & Wales). Whernside is also classified as an English Marilyn (25th highest in England, 513th highest in the UK).

This walk is on Ordnance Survey Maps:

OS Explorer Map OL2

1:25,000 scale (Orange Covers)

OS Landranger Map 98

1:50,000 scale (Pink Covers)

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