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Cleveland Hills – Frontier of the Yorkshire Moors

Cleveland Hills – Frontier of the Yorkshire Moors

The subject of this Yorkshire Worthy is a noble curving escarpment, dramatically delineating the north western termination of the North York Moors. The extent of the full escarpment is around fifteen miles, although it is the western half that is the most distinctively enjoyable, comprising an undulation of four linked hills – Carlton Moor, Cringle Moor, Cold Moor and Hasty Bank. These hills afford a sense of immediate prominence and perhaps for this reason have been aptly named the Cleveland…

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Ingleborough – Paragon of the Yorkshire Dales

Ingleborough – Paragon of the Yorkshire Dales

Ingleborough was the nearest ‘proper’ mountain to my childhood home and the first over 2,000 feet that I ever climbed. I was twelve years of age and took the bus to Ingleton one very wet winter Sunday. I didn’t see a thing all day and my primitive waterproofs were wholly inadequate, yet the sodden experience did not put me off, and repeating that ascent became a regular feature of my teenage years. Now fifty years later, it was a hill…

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High Cup Nick – A Pennine Wonder

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 worth travelling to see. Despite the rating of 64 High Cup Nick therefore gains Worthy status. A combination of geology and glaciation have created this crag rimmed valley deeply incised into the western…

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