Great Shunner fur
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 View from Swaledale (northeast) to Great Shunner Fell |
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| height | 716 m | |
| location | North Yorkshire , England | |
| Mountains | Pennines | |
| Notch height | 297 m ↓ Bowes Moor | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 22 '16 " N , 2 ° 14' 5" W | |
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Great Shunner Fell is the third highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales ( England ) at 716 m .
description
Great Shunner Fell is topographically part of the Wensleydale Valley and is its highest point. At the same time it forms the western boundary of the northern neighboring valley Swaledale .
Great Sleddale Beck , one of the two headwaters of the River Swale , has its source on the north slope of the mountain . The south side drains to the River Ure , which flows through Wensleydale . To the east of the mountain, a road over the Buttertubs Pass connects the two valleys.
Great Shunner Fell is made up primarily of limestone . In the upper part there are also cliffs made of millstone grit , a type of sandstone .
The part of the name Fell means "mountain" in northern England (related to the Scandinavian fjäll ).
tourism
The Pennine Way runs over the summit, where it reaches its highest point south of the Cross Fell massif . The route over the mountain was paved with natural stone slabs in 1996 in order to protect the raised bog areas from erosion caused by hiking traffic.
On the summit there is a cross-shaped, uncovered windbreak made of dry masonry with seating. A measuring point created here, designed as a bricked-up column, was integrated into the masonry. When the weather is clear, the view extends to Wensleydale (south), Ribblesdale (southwest) and Swaledale (east), and beyond to Cumbria (west) and Durham (northeast).
botany
Great Shunner Fell is the southernmost known habitat of the bog saxifrage in Great Britain.
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ Running from south to north, a height of over 700 m is reached for the second time on the ascent to Knock Fell, a few kilometers before Cross Fell.
- ↑ according to a private hiking report , accessed on August 19, 2019