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Comb Beck

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Comb Beck is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria. It is one of 235 SSSIs in the county. It is the smallest of them. It lies within the Lake District National Park.

For more of the same, Buttermere Fells and Scales Wood are close by. The closest station is Sellafield, about 19.8 km to the south-west.

More places to visit near Comb Beck

Photo of the Lake District, a National Park in Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

Lake District

You’re inside itNational Park near Grasmere

England's highest mountains and deepest lakes — the fells that invented British hillwalking.

Photo along the Coast to Coast, a 190-mile National Trail running from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay, England.Highlight

Coast to Coast

National Trail

Wainwright's own invention: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay through three national parks.

1.8 km S · North Yorkshire & Cumbria

Photo: Haystacks, a 597m Lake District fell near Buttermere, Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

Haystacks

Wainwright near Buttermere

Wainwright's favourite fell above Buttermere.

2.2 km SE

Photo: Honister Pass, a viewpoint near Seatoller in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

Honister Pass

Viewpoint near Seatoller

A dramatic road pass of slate crags and hairpins linking Borrowdale with Buttermere, one of the steepest in the Lakes.

3.2 km E

Photo of Crummock Water, a Lake near Buttermere in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

Crummock Water

Lake near Buttermere

Fed by the falls of Scale Force, this Buttermere-valley lake is ringed by Mellbreak and the high western fells.

3.7 km NW

Photo of Scale Force, a waterfall near Buttermere in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Scale Force

Waterfall near Buttermere

The highest single fall in the Lake District, dropping some 170 feet down a mossy cleft in the fells above Buttermere.

3.8 km NW