Col de Kirkstone

Le col de Kirkstone est un col de montagne situé dans le Lake District anglais, dans le comté de Cumbria. Il se trouve à une altitude de 455 m. Il s'agit du col le plus élevé du District traversé par une route ; l'A592 (en) entre Ambleside dans la vallée de Rothay (en) et Patterdale dans la vallée d'Ullswater. La pente de la route avoisinne 25 %. La vue pittoresque qui descend vers Patterdale a Brothers Water (en) comme point focal.

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Red Screes

Red Screes is a fell in the English Lake District, situated between the villages of Patterdale and Ambleside. It may be considered an outlier of the Fairfield group in the Eastern Fells, but is separated from its neighbours by low cols. This gives Red Screes an independence which is reflected in its prominence.

Kirkstone Pass

Kirkstone Pass is a mountain pass in the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria. It is at an altitude of 1,489 feet (454 m). It is the District's highest pass traversed by road; the A592 between Ambleside in Rothay Valley and Patterdale in Ullswater Valley. The road gradient approaches 1 in 4. The picturesque view down into Patterdale has Brothers Water as its focal point. The Kirkstone Pass Inn stands close to the summit. Once a vital coaching inn, it now caters primarily for tourists. It is the third-highest public house in England.

Middle Dodd

Middle Dodd is a fell in the English Lake District, an outlier of the Helvellyn range in the Eastern Fells. It stands above Kirkstone Pass on the road from Ullswater to Ambleside.

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Troutbeck SSSI

Troutbeck is a Site of Special Scientific Interest within Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England. This protected area is located 4km northeast of the town of Ambleside. This protected area extends from Troutbeck Tongue in the south to Thornthwaite Crag in the north. The streams Trout Beck and Hagg Gill flow through this protected area. This area is protected because of its grassland and fen habitats.

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Little Hart Crag

Little Hart Crag is a fell in the Lake District area of England. It stands at the head of Scandale, six kilometres (3+3⁄4 miles) north of Ambleside, at a height of 637 metres (2,090 ft). It is an eastern outlier of Dove Crag in the Eastern Fells, although it does have 34 metres (112 ft) of prominence from that fell making it both a Hewitt and a Nuttall fell. It is frequently climbed as part of the Dovedale horseshoe, an 11-kilometre (7-mile) walk over the neighbouring fells of Hartsop above How, Hart Crag, Dove Crag and High Hartsop Dodd, starting and finishing at Brothers Water.