Route outline for walk ny333:
Ribblehead - (Railway Station - After Train Journey From Horton in Ribblesdale) - B6255 - Old Hill Inn - Chapel-le-Dale - Braithwaite Wife Hole - Ingleborough - Pen-y-ghent Cafe - Horton in Ribblesdale.
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.
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
1 English Mountain |
0 Wainwrights |
1 English Nuttall |
0 English Deweys |
0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
1 Marilyn |
0 Bridgets |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Ingleborough at 724m (2375ft). Ingleborough is classified as an English Mountain (Hewitt) (83rd highest in England, 144th highest in England & Wales)
Ingleborough is also known as an English Nuttall (104th highest in England, 178th highest in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (26th highest in England, 540th highest in the UK).
The summit of Ingleborough is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.
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