Whernside, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Name: Whernside
Address: Yorkshire Dales National Park, United Kingdom

#14 among attractions in Yorkshire Dales National Park

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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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 Yorkshire and the historic West Riding of Yorkshire with the summit lying on the county boundary with Cumbria. It is the fifteenth most prominent hill in England. ()

Alternative names: Elevation: 2415 ftProminence: 1339 ftCoordinates: 54°13'40"N, 2°24'10"W

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Whernside – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Great Douk Cave, Ribblehead Viaduct, Jingling Pot, Swinsto Cave.

2.8 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Great Douk Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
73 min walk • Great Douk Cave is a shallow cave system lying beneath the limestone bench of Ingleborough in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England.
1.8 miSE
Bridge
Ribblehead Viaduct, Yorkshire Dales National Park
46 min walk • The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle–Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England.
3.1 miSW
Cave
Jingling Pot, Yorkshire Dales
79 min walk • Jingling Pot is a limestone cave in West Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. Located adjacent to Jingling Beck, it is a lenticular-shaped 45-metre deep shaft that descends straight from the surface.
3.7 miSW
Cave
Swinsto Cave, Yorkshire Dales
94 min walk • Swinsto Cave is a limestone cave in West Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It leads into Kingsdale Master Cave and it is popular with cavers as it is possible to descend by abseiling down the pitches, retrieving the rope each time, and exiting through Valley Entrance of Kingsdale Master Cave at the base of the hill.
2.5 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Yordas Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
64 min walk • Yordas Cave is a solutional cave in Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It has been renowned since the eighteenth century as a natural curiosity, and was a show cave during the nineteenth century.
3.3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Rowten Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
84 min walk • Rowten Pot is one of several entrances into the 27-kilometre long cave system that drains Kingsdale in North Yorkshire, England. Its entrance is a shaft some 27 metres long, 10 metres wide, and at the southern end 72 metres deep.
3.4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Gragareth, Yorkshire Dales National Park
87 min walk • Gragareth is a mountain straddling the border between Lancashire and North Yorkshire in England. At 627 metres, its summit is the second highest point in the post-1974 county of Lancashire.
3.1 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Aquamole Pot, Yorkshire Dales National Park
79 min walk • Aquamole Pot is a limestone cave in West Kingsdale, North Yorkshire, England. It was originally discovered by cave divers who negotiated 168 metres of sump passage from Rowten Pot in 1974, to enter a high aven above the river passage.
3.1 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Crag Hill, Yorkshire Dales National Park
80 min walk • Crag Hill is on the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales in northern England, not to be confused with the higher Crag Hill elsewhere in the county of Cumbria.
~180 ftSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Yorkshire Three Peaks, Yorkshire Dales National Park
1 min walk • The mountains of Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent are collectively known as the Three Peaks.
2.4 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Weathercote Cave, Yorkshire Dales National Park
61 min walk • Weathercote Cave is a natural solutional cave in Chapel-le-Dale, North Yorkshire, England. It has been renowned as a natural curiosity since the eighteenth century, and was accessible to paying visitors until 1971.