My old milk-bottle legs got an airing in the sunny Dales yesterday. Shorts were donned for a walk around Warrendale Knotts just up the hill from home in Langcliffe. From the top of any of the limestone knolls you can enjoy great views east and west. The mighty scars here are as impressive as any along the Craven Fault, and the limestone Dales landscape contrasts greatly from the neighbouring gritstone area where Black Hill and Rye Loaf Hill loom darkly. In the west, Ingleborough and Penyghent look down on Ribblesdale. Top photo shows Attermire Scar with Black Hill and Rye Loaf Hill in the background.
Off to Hell
Never knew that about Hell Gill. Had supposed it all went into the Eden but some goes to the Lune eh? Where does the divide happen?
The term County Beck is presumably used for the stream rather than the waterfall bit of it.
Shame about it not deriving from Satan’s Hell. The thought of Hell somehow feeding the Garden of Eden gives some sort of hope to us all I suppose.
Badly worded by me Mark… I wasn’t talking solely about the water from Hell GillI, I meant that the water from the whole area (including Ravenstonedale to the west) goes to the Lune and Morecambe Bay or via Eden to Solway, or east via Ure. And yes, the county line leaves Hell Gill before the falls so they can truly be claimed by Westmorland. Grand area to explore from the S&C!
There’s some wonderful pictures there this time. Many thanks for this.
Ive just come back from a week up there with my brother and sister. And it was sunny for the whole week despite the forecast saying it would rain.
Discovering Buckden beck and the waterfall walk there was one of the highlights for me.