Pen-y-ghent

Pen-y-ghent
	Pen-y-ghent seen from the south
height	694 m
location	Northern england
Mountains	Pennines
Notch height	306 m
Coordinates	54 ° 9 ′ 19 ″ N , 2 ° 14 ′ 59 ″ W Coordinates: 54 ° 9 ′ 19 ″ N , 2 ° 14 ′ 59 ″ W
Type	Marilyn
rock	Layers of limestone and sandstone
Normal way	Hiking trail to the top

Pen-y-ghent (pronounced ˈpɛnɨɡɛnt ) is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales in England and one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks .

location

Pen-y-ghent is with 694 m ASL the eighth highest elevation in Yorkshire and has a notch height of 306 m. The mountain is about three kilometers east of the village of Horton in Ribblesdale .

Various paths lead to the summit, which is part of the Three Peaks Walk . The Pennine Way also leads over the mountain, as the only one of the Yorkshire Three Peaks.

On the summit there is a brick column as the trigonometric point of the Ordnance Survey . Right next to it, a dry stone wall leads over the mountain in a north-south direction, into which two pedestrian gates and seating areas on both sides are embedded.

geology

The mountain consists of superimposed layers of limestone and sandstone. As a result of erosion processes in the layers of different hardness, two noticeable steps have formed on its south and west sides.

Surname

The name of the mountain has its roots in the Cumbrian language and the meaning is ambiguous. It is probably called the mountain at the border , but the interpretation head of the wind is also possible.

Alternative spellings are Pen y Ghent and Pen-y-Ghent .

photos

The Pennine Way leads up the mountain from Horton-in-Ribblesdale
Pending limestone on the lower step of the south side of the mountain
Surveying column and dry stone wall on the summit

literature

Alfred Wainwright , Walks in Limestone Country. The Whernside, Ingleborough and Penyghent Areas of Yorkshire (= Wainwright Pictorial Guides. ). Frances Lincoln, London 2003, ISBN 0-7112-2237-1 .
Dennis Kelsall, Jan Kelsall: Yorkshire Dales. Volume 1: The South and West - Wharfedale, Littondale, Malhamdale, Dentdale and Ribblesdale. Cicerone Press Limited, Milnthorpe 2008, ISBN 978-1-85284-485-1 .

Web links

Commons : Pen-y-ghent - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Waters, Colin; Davies, Sarah (2006). Brenchley, Patrick; Rawson, Peter, eds. The Geology of England and Wales (2nd ed.). Bath: Geological Society Publishing House. 195. ISBN 978-1-86239-199-4 .
↑ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names , 4th ed., 1960, Oxford, Oxford University Press

[1] Waters, Colin; Davies, Sarah (2006). Brenchley, Patrick; Rawson, Peter, eds. The Geology of England and Wales (2nd ed.). Bath: Geological Society Publishing House. 195. ISBN 978-1-86239-199-4 .

[2] Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names , 4th ed., 1960, Oxford, Oxford University Press