Backstone Edge
Backstone Edge is a peak in Dufton, Westmorland and Furness, England and has an elevation of 2,293 feet. Backstone Edge is situated nearby to the locality High Scald Fell, as well as near Threlkeld Side.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Knock Fell and Dufton Pike.
Knock Fell
Peak
Photo: Rude Health, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Knock Fell is a hill in Cumbria, England. It has a height of 794 m and a prominence of 50 m, and thus is listed as a Hewitt, a Simm and a Nuttall. The summit lies in the civil parish of Long Marton, but the boundary with the parish of Dufton is only a few metres to the south.
Dufton Pike
Peak
Photo: John Clive Nicholson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dufton Pike is a hill in the northern Pennines, in Cumbria, England. It is 481 metres above sea level and is classed as a Marilyn. It rises above the village of Dufton. Dufton Fell lies between the pike and Cow Green Reservoir.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include High Cup Gill and Keisley.
High Cup Gill
Locality
Photo: Douglal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
High Cup Gill, almost a geometrically perfect U-shaped chasm, is a valley deeply incised into the Pennine scarp to the northeast of Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria and within the North Pennines AONB in northern England.
Keisley
Hamlet
Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Keisley is a small hamlet in the English county of Cumbria. It is located in the Dufton civil parish and the Westmorland and Furness district.
Dufton
Village
Photo: Sara Hunt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dufton is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England. Historically part of Westmorland, it lies in the Eden Valley and below Great Dun Fell. It is mostly around 180m above sea level.
Backstone Edge
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,293 feet
- Category: landform
- Location: Dufton, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.64368° or 54° 38′ 37″ northLongitude
-2.42628° or 2° 25′ 35″ westElevation
2,293 feet (699 metres)Open location code
9C6VJHVF+FFOpenStreetMap ID
node 426582385OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12622403
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