Pen-y-ghent

Le Pen-y-ghent est un sommet montagneux des Pennines, dans le Nord de l'Angleterre, qui culmine à 694 m d'altitude. Il est situé dans la région des Yorkshire Dales, dans le comté du Yorkshire du Nord, à quelques kilomètres à l'est du village de Horton in Ribblesdale. Avec le Whernside et l'Ingleborough, il est l'un des « trois pics du Yorkshire », un groupe de trois sommets qui entourent les sources de la Ribble. L'ascension des trois pics l'un après l'autre constitue une randonnée d'une quarantaine de kilomètres appréciée des alpinistes. Il existe également des épreuves annuelles de course à pied, la Three Peaks Race, et de cyclo-cross qui relient les trois montagnes. Son nom est d'origine cambrienne, avec l'élément pen « tête, sommet », mais le sens de ghent est incertain.

Nearby Places View Menu

Pen-y-ghent or Penyghent is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is the lowest of Yorkshire's Three Peaks at 2,277 feet (694 m); the other two being Ingleborough and Whernside. It lies 1.9 miles (3 km) east of Horton in Ribblesdale. It has a number of interesting geological features, such as Hunt Pot, and further down, Hull Pot. The waters that flow in have created an extensive cave system which rises at Brants Gill head. In 2004 the body of Lamduan Armitage, dubbed by the media the "Lady of the Hills", was found near to the entrance of Sell Gill Hole.

Brants Gill Catchment

Brants Gill Catchment is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) within Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. It is located 1km east of the village of Horton in Ribblesdale on the lower slopes of Pen-y-ghent. Belowground under this protected area is an excellent cave system that includes Hull Pot and Little Hull Pot and Hunt Pot near the Horton Scar Line. This protected area includes three separate land areas. The eastern-most section of this protected area on Fountains Fell includes the cave systems connected to Echo Pot, Antler Hole, Hammer Pot and Gingling Hole. The streams from these cave systems flow into the River Ribble. Brants Gill Catchment SSSI is adjacent to Pen-y-Ghent SSSI, and so forms part of a wider area of nature protection.

Plover Hill

Plover Hill is an area of moorland lying to the north of Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales and connected to it by an unbroken area of high ground. Whilst the whole area is now "open access land", the main right-of-way footpaths come directly from the north off Foxup Road and directly from the south from the summit of Pen-y-ghent. Plover Hill rises between two side valleys of Littondale: the valley of Hesleden Beck to the south and that of Foxup Beck to the north. It lies within the civil parish of Halton Gill.

Silverdale, North Yorkshire

Silverdale is a minor dale in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is a side dale of Ribblesdale, and lies west of Fountains Fell. The dale head is just south of Pen-y-ghent. The Pennine Way crosses the head of the dale. A minor road runs through the dale from Stainforth to Halton Gill. 4 miles (6.4 km) along the road from Stainforth is the site of Neolithic burial ground known as Giants Graves.

Brackenbottom

Brackenbottom is a hamlet in Ribblesdale, near to Horton-in-Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, England. The hamlet is the location of the headquarters of Bradford Potholing Club who own a bunkhouse in the village.