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Backstone Edge

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Backstone Edge tops out at 699 m in Cumbria. It counts among the 442 Nuttalls, English and Welsh tops over 2,000 feet with at least 15 m of drop. It is one of 436 hills the Albion Guide lists in Cumbria. It stands inside the North Pennines National Landscape.

The closest station is Appleby, 8 km to the south-west. Knock Fell and Dufton Pike are among the hills within 2.8 km.

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Photo of High Cup Nick, the glacial valley cut into the North Pennines escarpment, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

North Pennines

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Wearhead

England's high, quiet backbone of moorland tops, waterfalls and old lead-mining dales, designated in 1988

Photo along the Pennine Way, a 268-mile National Trail running from Edale to Kirk Yetholm, England and Scotland.Highlight

Pennine Way

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The first and toughest of them all — 268 miles along England's rocky spine from the Peak to the Cheviots.

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Photo: High Cup Nick, a viewpoint near Dufton in the North Pennines, Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

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Viewpoint near Dufton

A glacial chasm bitten clean out of the Pennine scarp, rimmed with columns of Whin Sill dolerite — the Pennine Way walks straight along its northern lip.

2.6 km SE

Photo of the River Eden, a 90-mile river running from Mallerstang to Solway Firth, north west England.Highlight

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Cumbria's great river, running north from the Mallerstang fells through red sandstone country and Carlisle to the Solway.

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Photo of Appleby-in-Westmorland, a village in Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Appleby-in-Westmorland

Village

Former county town on a loop of the Eden, a broad main street between castle and church, host to the June horse fair.

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Photo of Cauldron Snout, a waterfall near Holwick in the North Pennines, County Durham, north east England.Highlight

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Waterfall near Holwick

England's longest cascade, where the Tees tumbles some 60 metres in stepped falls below Cow Green.

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