Craven: Whernside
The landscape around Whernside is a broad sweep of limestone grassland and moor, which has shaped both scattered farmsteads and the grazing economy of this part of the Yorkshire Dales. At 736 metres, Whernside is Yorkshire’s highest summit and one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, the celebrated walking challenge linking it with Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent. The hill rises above the Ribblehead area, where the Settle–Carlisle Railway crosses Batty Moss on Ribblehead Viaduct. Completed in 1875, the viaduct’s 24 stone arches are among northern England’s defining railway structures. Roads, fields and the railway underline the open, working character of Craven.
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