High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) Walk
One of the finest natural features in northern England, the spectacular High Cup Nick, on good paths and with easy route finding
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High Cup, from High Cup Nick
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Mickle Fell beyond Maize Beck
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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View down Scordale towards Roman Fell from Scordale Head
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Backview up Scordale's area of intense mining
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Nick
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup from near Brackenthwaite Farm
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28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Approaching High Cup Nick
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Approaching High Cup Nick
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Footbridge over the Maize Beck
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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The Maize Beck towards Mickle Fell
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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The Maize Beck
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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The Maize Beck
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Cascade on the Maize Beck
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Tributary of the Swarth Beck out of the hillside
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Path through the Upland Peatbog by the Swarth Beck
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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View down Scordale from Scordale Head
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Peat Hag at Scordale Head
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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View down Scordale towards Roman Fell
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Little Augill, Scordale
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Spoil Heaps from disused mines, Middle Scordale
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Streams joining the Scordale Beck in waterfalls
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Middle Scordale
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Stream joining Scordale Beck
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Scordale Beck and a marker post
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Backview to a waterfall on the Beck in Scordale
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Crag Face in Scordale
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Scars of intense mining activity in Scordale: spoil heaps, levels, tramways
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Scordale: the Beck in a culvert under a spoil haep!
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Scars of intense mining activity in Scordale: spoil heaps, levels, tramways
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Backview up Scordale's area of intense mining
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Backview up Scordale's area of intense mining
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Extension via Warcop Range and Scordale]
23-Apr-23 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Murton Pike, from Stank Lane
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Gill and Trundale Gill, from Stank Lane
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Gill and Trundale Gill, from fields en route to Flakebridge Wood
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Hut betwwen Gregory (on left) and Harthwaite (on right), off the Pennine Way
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Dufton Pike and Knock Pike
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Middletongue Crag, from Peeping Hill
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Murton Pike, from Peeping Hill
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Middle Tongue and Murton Pike
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Scar and Middle Tongue
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup, from SW corner
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Scar, with upland plateau beyond
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Strand's Beck, from Hannah's Well
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Backview to Murton Pike, from elevated path section
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Nick, from elevated path section
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Scar
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup and Murton Pike
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Nichol's Chair
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Crag Face near High Cup Nick
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Nick
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Scar from the nick
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
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High Cup Scar from the nick
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup, from High Cup Nick
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Westerly side of High Cup
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Easterly side of High Cup
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Cleft in High Cup Scar
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28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Outbound route along High Cup
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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View along the Scar into the Eden Valley
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup Gill, from easterly crag face
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Backview to High Cup Nick
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28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Bands of Scree down the side of High Cup
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Strand's Beck
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28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Rising away from the crag face
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Wilkd Boar Fell in the distance
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Trundale Gill towards Harbour Flatt Farm
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Backview towards Middle Tongue and High Cup
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Top of High Cup from track south of High Cup House
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup from near Brackenthwaite Farm
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup from near Brackenthwaite Farm
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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High Cup from near Brackenthwaite Farm
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular) [Shortcut]
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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Appleby-in-Westmoreland Station, Settle bound platform
SWC Walk 415 - High Cup Nick (Appleby-in-Westmoreland Circular)
28-Jul-22 • thomasgrabow on Flickr
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