Whernside
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 Whernside seen from Ribbledale , |
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| height | 736 m | |
| location | Cumbria and North Yorkshire counties , England | |
| Mountains | Pennines | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 13 '39 " N , 2 ° 24' 12" W | |
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The Whernside is a mountain in the north of England . It is located in the Pennines on the border of Cumbria and North Yorkshire in the middle of the 1,765 km² Yorkshire Dales nature reserve and is 736 m high.
Since April 1, 1974, the Whernside has been the highest point in modern Yorkshire due to border shifts in the wake of the Local Government Act 1972. Together with the Ingleborough (723 m) and the Pen-y-ghent (694 m), it forms the Yorkshire Three Peaks ("Three Peaks of Yorkshire"). Essentially, the Whernside consists of a long ridge running north-south.
There are various paths leading to the summit, which is part of the Three Peaks Walk . From the summit the view extends west to the Lake District and Morecambe Bay . On a clear day you can even see the Blackpool Tower in the southwest, 40 miles away.
Three kilometers southeast of the mountain is the Ribblehead Viaduct , a structure on the Settle – Carlisle railway line , which then crosses the northeast flank of the Whernside in a long tunnel.
With a relative height of over 200 m compared to the surrounding area, the Whernside is one of the few English so-called Marilyns , which are defined as elevations with at least 150 m notch height .
