Great Knoutberry Hill (Dent to Ribblehead) walk
Easy mountain walk from England's highest station onto grassy hill with fine views. Passes three railway viaducts and uses good track across Blea Moor.
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Dent Head Viaduct
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Wild Boar Fell, from Coal Road, above Dent Station
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Shaft No 2, Blea Moor, with Ingleborough
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Ribblehead Viaduct from the east
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Barrow Crossing at Dent Station
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Dent Station, at 351 metres the highest (in-service) main line station in England
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Backview down Coal Road from above Dent Station: Whernside and Calf Top
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Ingleborough, from Coal Road, above Dent Station
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View down Dentdale from the Pennine Bridleway along Great Knoutberry Hill
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Ingleborough and Whernside from the Pennine Bridleway along Great Knoutberry Hill
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Stile, fence, wall, trig point, storm shelter-cum-bench: the summit of Great Knoutberry Hill
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Fence, wall, trig point, storm shelter-cum-bench: the summit of Great Knoutberry Hill
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Wild Boar Fell from the summit of Great Knoutberry Hill
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Northeasterly views from the summit of Great Knoutberry Hill along Widdale Fell towards Wensleydale
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Ingleborough from Swineley Cowm
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Pen-y-ghent from flank of Wold Fell
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Ingleborough from flank of Wold Fell
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Dent Head Viaduct from road, with Aye Gill Pike in distance
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Dent Head Viaduct from road
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Baugh Fell, from road above Dent Head Viaduct
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Dent Head Viaduct down the road
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Dent Head Viaduct
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Fell End Gill, under Dent Head Viaduct
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Dent Head Viaduct (detail)
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Dent Head Viaduct from field to the west
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Infant River Dee by Dent Head Farm
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Infant River Dee by Dent Head Farm (can be dry on the surface)
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Drystone Wall Artwork at Dent Head Farm
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Infant River Dee above Dent Head Farm
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Ducks on the Loose (Dent Head Farm)
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River Dee above Dent Head Farm
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River Dee above Dent Head Farm
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Waterfall on River Dee above Dent Head Farm (railway line above)
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Blea Moor Tunnel Entrance above Dent Head Farm
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Backview along railway line from Hazel Bottom towards Great Knoutberry Hill
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Backview along railway line from Hazel Bottom towards Wold Fell and Great Knoutberry Hill
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Backview from Blea Moor towards Great Knoutberry Hill, Baugh Fell and Wild Boar Fell
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Shaft No 3, Blea Moor, with Great Knoutberry Hill behind
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Shaft No 3, Blea Moor, with Wold Fell and Great Knoutberry Hill behind
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Ingleborough, from Blea Moor
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Ingleborough and Shaft No 2, Blea Moor
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Shaft No 2, Blea Moor
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Shaft No 2, Blea Moor, with spoil heaps
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Shaft No 1, from Shaft No 2, Blea Moor
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Shaft No 1, Blea Moor, with Ingleborough
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Shaft No 1, Blea Moor, with spoil heaps and flank of Whernside
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Shaft No 1, Blea Moor, with Ingleborough
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Final spoil heaps near shaft for tunnel works, Little Dale
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Fenced off shaft for Blea Moor tunnel works, Little Dale
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Ingleborough, from Little Dale
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Backview to spoil heaps in Little Dale, from Blue Clay Ridge (3 Peaks Route)
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Sheep on Blue Clay Ridge
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Limestone Bands, near Winterscales Farm
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Backview to Blea Moor Signal Box, from near Winterscales Farm
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Limestone Outcrop by the Winterscales Beck
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Lime Kiln, by Winterscales Farm
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Ribblehead Viaduct, from the west
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Ribblehead Viaduct, from the west
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Ribblehead Viaduct, from the west, with the (delayed) 14.53 to Leeds
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The (delayed) 14.53 to Leeds on Ribblehead Viaduct
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Ingleborough from Ribblehead Viaduct
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Ribblehead Viaduct
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Ingleborough through Ribblehead Viaduct
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