Ingleborough, North Yorkshire
Height: 2371 feet
The “Three Peaks” in the Yorkshire Dales National Park boast some of the most spectacular upland scenery in Yorkshire comprising the peaks of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-Ghent.
The distinctive shape of Ingleborough, with its famous flat topped profile, is due to the local geology i.e. a broad cap of millstone grit atop a broader plateau of carboniferous limestone. Streams running off the millstone grit meet limestone rock further down the slopes where they disappear underground, falling into deep potholes and caverns.
Date: 10th April 2006
Location: view from B6255 road near Ribblehead station
The “Three Peaks” in the Yorkshire Dales National Park boast some of the most spectacular upland scenery in Yorkshire comprising the peaks of Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-Ghent.
The distinctive shape of Ingleborough, with its famous flat topped profile, is due to the local geology i.e. a broad cap of millstone grit atop a broader plateau of carboniferous limestone. Streams running off the millstone grit meet limestone rock further down the slopes where they disappear underground, falling into deep potholes and caverns.
Date: 10th April 2006
Location: view from B6255 road near Ribblehead station
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