List Of Peaks In The Yorkshire Dales
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Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in the historic county of Yorkshire, England, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954. The Dales comprise river valleys and the hills rising from the Vale of York w ...
. To avoid the list becoming infinitely long and arbitrary, only hills with more than 30 m
relative height In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
are included. This includes all Marilyns and Hewitts as well as many other hills. Marilyns are peaks in the
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with 150  m of
relative height In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
; Hewitts are peaks in
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and
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over 2000  ft (610 m)
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, with at least 30 m relative height. There are 22 Marilyns and 28 Hewitts in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
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ly, the boundaries of the Yorkshire Dales trace the flow of streams from the lowest points between it and the neighbouring regions of the Lake District,
North Pennines The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England. It lies between Carlisle to the west and Darlington to the east. It is bounded to the north by the Tyne Valley and ...
,
Forest of Bowland The Forest of Bowland, also known as the Bowland Fells and formerly the Chase of Bowland, is an area of gritstone fells, deep valleys and peat moorland, mostly in north-east Lancashire, England, with a small part in North Yorkshire (however ro ...
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South Pennines The South Pennines is a region of moorland and hill country in northern England lying towards the southern end of the Pennines. In the west it includes the Rossendale Valley and the West Pennine Moors. It is bounded by the Greater Manchester ...
and North York Moors. Hills are grouped as topographically as possible, according to their 'parent Marilyn'. The parent Marilyn of hill A can be found by dividing the nearby area into territories, by tracing the runoff from the key col of each Marilyn. The parent is the Marilyn whose territory hill A resides in. Marilyns are given in bold, followed by the hills within their territories, which are delineated in the map. In the table headers, H stands for
height Height is measure of vertical distance, either vertical extent (how "tall" something or someone is) or vertical position (how "high" a point is). For example, "The height of that building is 50 m" or "The height of an airplane in-flight is ab ...
and RH for relative height.


Northern Dales


Southern Dales

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West / south-west

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Calf Top Calf Top is a mountain in the western part of the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is located in the county of Cumbria, although Lancashire and North Yorkshire are not far away. Calf Top is a dominating profile in the view from many of the smaller hi ...
, 609 , 312 , , - , CTP-2 , Castle Knott , 538 , 55 , , - , CTP-3 , Holme Knott , 370 , c 34 , , - {, class="wikitable sortable" style="border-collapse: collapse; background:#ffffff;" !ID !Hill !H !RH !Grid ref. , - , GCM-1 , Great Coum , 687 , c 221 , , - , GCM-2 , Gragareth , 627 , 30 , , - , GCM-3 , Barbon Low Fell , 437 , c 132 , , - , GCM-4 , Hoggs Hill , 430 , c 32 , , - {, class="wikitable sortable" style="border-collapse: collapse; background:#ffffff;" !ID !Hill !H !RH !Grid ref. , - , WSD-1 ,
Whernside Whernside is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales in Northern England. It is the highest of the Yorkshire Three Peaks, the other two being Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent. It is the highest point in the ceremonial county of North YorkshireMickle Fel ...
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North

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Buckden Pike Buckden Pike is a fell at the head of Wharfedale, a valley in the Yorkshire Dales, that stands above the village of Buckden, England. At , it narrowly misses out on being the highest peak in the area, the title instead going to nearby Great Wh ...
, 702 , c 207 , , - , BDP-2 , Brown Haw , 584 , 61 , , - , BDP-3 , Naughtberry Hill , 573 , 44 , , - , BDP-4 , Height of Hazely , 553 , 117 , , - , BDP-5 ,
Penhill Penhill ( high at the trig point, at Height of Hazely) is a prominent hill, south west of Leyburn, in the Pennines, North Yorkshire, England. It forms a ridge that commands the southern side of Wensleydale and the northern side of Coverdale ...
, 546 , 146 , - , BDP-6 , Harland Hill , 535 , c 50 , , -


East

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Great Whernside Great Whernside is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales, England, not to be confused with Whernside, some to the west. Its summit is the highest point of the eastern flank of Wharfedale above Kettlewell. Great Whernside forms the watershed between ...
, 704 , c 288 , , - , GWS-2 , Little Whernside , 604 , c 79 , , - , GWS-3 , Meugher , 575 , c 36 , , - , GWS-4 , Dead Man's Hill , 546 , c 62 , , - , GWS-5 , Simon's Seat , 485 , c 102 , , - , GWS-6 , Woodale Moss , 459 , c 36 , , - , GWS-7 , Greenhow Hill , 428 , c 44 , , - , GWS-8 , High Crag , 420 , c 33 , , - , GWS-9 , Round Hill , 409 , c 112 , , - , GWS-10 , The Old Pike , 400 , c 33 , , - , GWS-11 , Nabs , 314 , c 30 , , - , GWS-12 , Brimham Moor , 301 , c 48 , , - , GWS-13 , Askwith Moor , 300 , c 32 , , - , GWS-14 , Lindley Moor , 292 , c 118 , , - , GWS-15 , Langerton Hill , 278 , 34 , , - , GWS-16 , Almscliff Crag , c 213 , c 34 , , - , GWS-17 , How Hill , c 172 , c 56 , , - , GWS-18 , Crier Hill , c 167 , c 30 , , - , GWS-19 , Walton Head Whin , 159 , c 55 , , - , GWS-20 , Clip'd Thorn Hill , 152 , c 45 , , - , GWS-21 ,
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, 127 , c 32 , , - , GWS-22 , Healthwaite Hill , 115 , c 41 , , - , GWS-23 , Gibbet Hill , 80 , c 33 , , - , GWS-24 , Bilbrough Hill , 48 , c 32 , , - , valign="top" width="50%" ,


South

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Pen-y-ghent Pen-y-ghent or Penyghent is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is the lowest of Yorkshire's Three Peaks at ; the other two being Ingleborough and Whernside. It lies east of Horton in Ribblesdale. It has a number of interesting geologi ...
, 694 , c 306 , , - , PYG-2 ,
Plover Hill Plover Hill is an area of moorland lying to the north of Pen-y-ghent in the Yorkshire Dales and connected to it by an unbroken area of high ground. Whilst the whole area is now "open access land", the main right-of-way footpaths come directly fr ...
, 680 , c 59 , , - {, class="wikitable sortable" style="border-collapse: collapse; background:#ffffff;" !ID !Hill !H !RH !Grid ref. , - , FTF-1 , Fountains Fell , 668 , 243 , , - , FTF-2 , Darnbrook Fell , 624 , 40 , , - , FTF-3 , Grizedales , 553 , c 126 , , - , FTF-4 , Rye Loaf Hill , 547 , c 44 , , - , FTF-5 , Parson's Pulpit , 538 , c 124 , , - , FTF-6 , Proctor High Mark , 531 , c 45 , , - , FTF-7 , Black Hill , 468 , 30 , , - , FTF-8 , Great Close Hill , 465 , c 40 , , - , FTF-9 , Warrendale Knotts , 440 , 56 , , - , FTF-10 , Abbott Hills , 415 , c 40 , , - , FTF-11 , Weets Top , 414 , c 43 , , - , FTF-12 , Malham Moor , 411 , c 30 , , - , FTF-13 , High Hill , 398 , 40 , , - , FTF-14 , Hunter Bark , 315 , c 38 , , - , FTF-15 , Newton Moor Top , 291 , c 32 , , - , FTF-16 , Limekiln Hill , 236 , c 30 , , - , FTF-17 , Hard Knot Hill , 221 , c 56 , , - , FTF-18 , Winterley Cobba , 220 , c 34 , , - , FTF-19 , Steeling Hill , 218 , c 33 , , - , FTF-20 , Hellifield Haw , 217 , c 40 , , - , FTF-21 , Haw Crag , 206 , c 57 , , - , FTF-22 , Pot Haw Hill , 202 , c 31 , , - , FTF-23 , Nutter Cote Hill , 195 , c 61 , , - , FTF-24 , Acliffe Hill , 179 , c 38 , , - , FTF-25 , Mickleber Hill , 178 , 35 , , -


South-east

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Yorkshire Dales The Yorkshire Dales is an upland area of the Pennines in the historic county of Yorkshire, England, most of it in the Yorkshire Dales National Park created in 1954. The Dales comprise river valleys and the hills rising from the Vale of York w ...
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