High Cup Nick – A Pennine Wonder
High Cup Nick is a landscape feature, not a hill, however it occurs on a high escarpment where surrounding summits are of marginal additional altitude and therefore it feels like a hill. Moreover, it’s a unique and compelling upland cynosure and, in my book, that makes it worthy of our Honourable Mention category. A combination of geology and glaciation have created this crag rimmed valley deeply incised into the western scarp of the Pennine hills. Some people aggrandise High Cup…