Pen-y-ghent Side

Pen-y-ghent Side is a heath in Halton Gill, Craven District, England. Pen-y-ghent Side is situated nearby to the peak Black Banks, as well as near Marble Quarry Hill.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pen-y-ghent and Plover Hill.

Pen-y-ghent

Peak

Photo: Tim Cook, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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; the other two being Ingleborough and Whernside.

Plover Hill

Peak

Photo: Tom Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Giants’ Graves

Archaeological site

Photo: John Illingworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Giants’ Graves is an archaeological site, which is situated 1½ miles southeast of Pen-y-ghent Side.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Foxup and Brackenbottom.

Foxup

Hamlet

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Foxup is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The hamlet is near Halton Gill and Litton and is 13 miles north west of Grassington. Foxup is situated 2 miles northeast of Pen-y-ghent Side.

Brackenbottom

Hamlet

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. Brackenbottom is situated 2 miles southwest of Pen-y-ghent Side.

Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Horton-in-Ribblesdale is a village in North Yorkshire. With a population of 400 in 2021, it's set in the Yorkshire Dales beneath the "Three Peaks", and is a stopover on the Pennine Way.

Pen-y-ghent Side

Type: Heath
Location: Halton Gill, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.17099° or 54° 10′ 16″ north

Longitude

-2.24942° or 2° 14′ 58″ west

Open location code

9C6V5QC2+96

OpenStreetMap ID

way 690999175

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=heath

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Black Banks and Marble Quarry Hill.

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