Scar Close

Scar Close is a locality in Ingleton, Craven District, England. Scar Close is situated nearby to the locality Philpin Woofas, as well as near Souther Scales Fell.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Great Douk Cave and Weathercote Cave.

Great Douk Cave

Cave

Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Great Douk Cave is a shallow cave system lying beneath the limestone bench of Ingleborough in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England. It is popular with beginners and escorted groups, as it offers straightforward caving, and it is possible to follow the cave from where a stream emerges at a small waterfall to a second entrance close to where it sinks 600 yards further up the hill.

Weathercote Cave

Cave

Photo: Langcliffe, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Weathercote Cave is a natural solutional cave in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England. It has been renowned as a natural curiosity since the eighteenth century, and was accessible to paying visitors until 1971.

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 Selside.

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.

Selside

Hamlet

Photo: Andy Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Selside is a small village in Ribblesdale in North Yorkshire, England. It lies 2 miles north west of Horton in Ribblesdale. Selside was mentioned, in the form Selesat, in the Domesday Book, when it was held by Roger of Poitou. Selside is situated 2 miles southeast of Scar Close.

Scar End

Hamlet

Scar End is a settlement on the side of Twisleton Scar in the English county of North Yorkshire. This Scar itself is the end of a spur running westwards from Whernside, one of the Three Peaks, towards Ingleton, North Yorkshire, and the beds of limestone project to a height of 120 metres above sea level. Scar End is situated 3½ miles southwest of Scar Close.

Scar Close

Type: Locality
Location: Ingleton, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.1934° or 54° 11′ 36″ north

Longitude

-2.37893° or 2° 22′ 44″ west

Open location code

9C6V5JVC+9C

OpenStreetMap ID

node 10565787156

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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