Whernside
Whernside is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales in Northern England. It is the highest of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, the other two being Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cyberdemon007, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Green Hill and Ribblehead Viaduct.
Green Hill
Peak
Photo: Karl and Ali, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Green Hill is a mountain or fell in north west England. Its summit is 628 metres above sea level. It is located above Cowan Bridge, Lancashire, near Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, and Ingleton, North Yorkshire.
Ribblehead Viaduct
Bridge
Photo: Michael Bryan, CC BY 2.0.
The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle–Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England.
Ribblehead railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ulleskelf, Public domain.
Ribblehead is a railway station on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between Carlisle and Leeds via Settle. The station, situated 52 miles 17 chains north-west of Leeds, serves the area of Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chapel-le-Dale and Stone House.
Chapel-le-Dale
Hamlet
Chapel-le-Dale is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ingleton, North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in a valley of the same name, and was previously in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Stone House
Hamlet
Photo: Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stone House is a locality at Dent Head on the River Dee, in the county of Cumbria, England, to the south-east of Cowgill and to the north-west of Newby Head.
Cowgill
Hamlet
Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cowgill is a village in Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England. It is within the historic boundaries of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and is located 9 miles south east of Sedbergh.
Whernside
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,415 feet
- Description: mountain in Cumbria, United Kingdom; one of the ‘Yorkshire Three Peaks’
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Dent, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
54.22778° or 54° 13′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.40263° or 2° 24′ 10″ westElevation
2,415 feet (736 metres)Open location code
9C6V6HHW+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 82424124OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
2634160Wikidata ID
Q1579697
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Panjabi—“Whernside” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Whernside”
- Cebuano: “Whernside (bukid sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Whernside”
- Dutch: “Whernside”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل وايرنسيد”
- French: “Whernside”
- German: “Whernside”
- Japanese: “ウエーンサイド”
- Ladin: “Whernside”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Whernside”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whernside”
- Norwegian: “Whernside”
- Russian: “Уэрнсайд”
- Swedish: “Whernside”
- Western Panjabi: “ورنسائیڈ”
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