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Castle Carrock
Castle Carrock est un village et une paroisse civile de Cumbria, situé dans le nord-ouest de l'Angleterre.
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Geltsdale
Geltsdale is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Castle Carrock, in the Cumberland district, in the ceremonial county of Cumbria, England, to the southeast of Castle Carrock village. In 2001 the parish had a population of 6. From 1858 Geltsdale was a civil parish in its own right. On 1 April 2003 the parish was abolished and merged with Castle Carrock.
The Geltsdale Reservoir railway ran in the vicinity.
The local landscapes are under several levels of protection. Two of the protected areas cover a large area:
the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
the North Pennines Moors Special Protection Area (147,276 ha)
Geltsdale & Glendue Fells Site of Special Scientific Interest has an area of 8,059 ha, and is one of the SSSIs which underlie the SPA.
Geltsdale RSPB reserve is a 5,000 ha nature reserve within the SSSI. It mainly moorland and is managed by the Royal Society for Protection of Birds for upland birds such as black grouse and hen harrier.
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Geltsdale Reservoir railway
The Geltsdale Reservoir railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge industrial railway used during the construction of Castle Carrock Reservoir near Carlisle in Cumbria.
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Cold Fell (Pennines)
Cold Fell is a mountain in the northern Pennines, in Cumbria, England. Lying among the northernmost uplands of the North Pennines AONB, it is the most northerly mountain in Cumbria and is listed as a Marilyn due to its prominence of 168m.
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Geltsdale & Glendue Fells
Geltsdale & Glendue Fells is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the North Pennines, England. The site has an area of 8059 ha, partly in Cumbria and partly in Northumberland.