Buttertubs Pass
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 View from the top of the pass to the north. On the left bend in the right third of the picture are the butter tubs . |
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| Compass direction | south | North | |
| Pass height | 526 m ASL | ||
| region | North Yorkshire , England , UK | ||
| Watershed | Ure | Swale | |
| Valley locations | Simonstone | Thwaite | |
| expansion | Street | ||
| Mountains | Pennines | ||
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| Max. Incline | 17% | 25% | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 21 '23 " N , 2 ° 12' 13" W | ||
The Buttertubs Pass (English Buttertubs Pass , translated "Butter Barrel Pass") is a low mountain pass in the Yorkshire Dales in northern England , which connects the place Thwaite in upper Swaledale with the place Simonstone at Hawes in upper Wensleydale .
course
The pass road, the Cliff Gate Road with the designation C32, branches off in Swaledale east of Thwaite at an altitude of 303 m from the B6270 to the south and climbs with inclines of up to 25 percent winding on a steep slope to a height of 526 m . Then it falls back down to Wensleydale, crosses the hamlet of Simonstone and joins the C34 road at an altitude of 254 m about 1 km north of Hawes , which runs east-west through northern Wensleydale. In its course, it passes three cattle bars .
Butter tubs
The pass gets its name from a geological peculiarity, the so-called butter tubs at a height of 480 m northeast of the pass summit. These are several adjacent fields of up to 24 meters deep cleft barrows , which were created here through natural karst processes .
The pass road leads between these fields. The cleft fields are fenced in for security reasons, but can be entered on foot.
The name "churns" goes back to the tradition that farmers from Swaledale kept their unsold butter in these crevices (cooled by shade and water flow) on their way back from the market in Hawes , so that they would not go down the steep path and again the next market day to have to carry up.
Events
The mountain pass is part of the 2014 Tour de France North Yorkshire as one of the King of the Mountains climbs .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ordnance Survey Explorer Map OL30 Yorkshire Dales 1: 25,000
- ↑ a b according to the information board on site
- ^ Nigel Wynn, Richard Abraham: Tour de France 2014 in Yorkshire: Official launch in Leeds . English. Route and descriptions of all three stages. Online at CyclingWeekly.co.uk January 17, 2013, accessed July 18, 2013.