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The northern Pennine range is bordered by the foothills of the Lake District, and uplands of the Howgill Fells, Orton Fells, Border Moors and Cheviot Hills. The West Pennine Moors, Rossendale Valley [4] and Forest of Bowland [5] are western spurs, the former two are in the South Pennines.
Natural England describes the South Pennine moorlands as the Watershed Landscape where the area's high rainfall fills a multitude of reservoirs. The South Pennines and its fringe has a population of more than a million people. [6] Woodland covers about 4% of the terrain mostly on steep valley sides. [7]
The Pennine Alps (French: Alpes Pennines, German: Walliser Alpen, Italian: Alpi Pennine, Latin: Alpes Poeninae), sometimes referred to as the Valais Alps (which are just the Northern Swiss part of the Pennine Alps), are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in Italy (the Aosta Valley and Piedmont) and Switzerland .
The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England.It lies between Carlisle to the west and Darlington to the east, straddling the borders of the counties of Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland and North Yorkshire.
High Cup Gill on the Pennine Way. High Cup Gill (or High Cup Nick or just High Cup), almost a geometrically perfect U-shaped chasm, [1] is a valley deeply incised into the Pennine scarp to the northeast of Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria and within the North Pennines AONB in northern England. [1]
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.
Pennine Alps, a mountain range in the western Alps; Pennine Way, a National Trail in England and Scotland; Pennine FM, an Independent Local Radio station in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire; Rolls-Royce Pennine, a British 46-litre air-cooled sleeve valve engine with 24 cylinders arranged in an X formation
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