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Whinfell Forest is a small area of woodland in the parish of Brougham, Cumbria, south east of Penrith in Cumbria and just off the A66 road leading to Appleby-in-Westmorland. The forest is a short distance from the Lake District national park and is surrounded by a large number of woodlands west of the Pennines .
The West Pennine Moors is an area of the Pennines covering approximately 90 square miles (230 km 2) of moorland and reservoirs in Lancashire and Greater Manchester, England. [1] It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest. [2] The West Pennine Moors are separated from the main Pennine range by the Irwell Valley to the east.
The Pennines are fringed by extensive lowlands including the Eden Valley, West Lancashire Coastal Plain, Cheshire Plain, Vale of York, Humberhead Levels and the Midland Plains. Scenery in the Forest of Bowland. The main range of the Pennines start from its southern end at the Weaver Hills in the Peak District. [25]
It includes the whole of Cross Fell, the summit of which, at 893 metres asl, is the highest point in the Pennines and in England outside the Lake District. The area is important for its wide variety of upland habitats, especially blanket bog , sub-montane and montane heath, montane bryophyte heath, limestone grassland and flushes , and for the ...
Geographically, with the exception of its southern side, the Barony of Kendal is surrounded by mountainous terrain and water. On the longest part of its northern boundary, it is separated from the Barony of Westmorland by the natural boundary of the Shap Fells, which are part of the Lake District's "Far Eastern Fells", being described by Alfred Wainwright as "the high link between the Pennines ...
The Rossendale Valley is in the Rossendale area of Lancashire, England, between the West Pennine Moors and the main range of the Pennines.The area includes the steep-sided valleys of the River Irwell and its tributaries (between Rawtenstall and Bacup), which flow southwards into Greater Manchester.
Hills of the Forest of Bowland (12 P) P. Mountains and hills of the Peak District (85 P) W. Hills of the West Pennine Moors (11 P) Y. ... Windy Hill (Pennines)
Whinfell Beacon can form part of a 19 kilometres (12 mi) walk starting from the A685 road 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Tebay, climbing Grayrigg Forest (with an optional extension to Grayrigg Pike), and following the ridge south of Borrowdale over Birk Fell, Castle Fell and Mabbin Crag, west as far as the A6 until dropping into the valley for the ...