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Photo of Great Asby Scar, a National Nature Reserve near Appleby-in-Westmorland in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, north west England.

© Andy Waddington / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Great Asby Scar

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Great Asby Scar is a National Nature Reserve in Cumbria, covering 3.1 km². The county has 26 National Nature Reserves; this is one. The surrounding countryside is part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

For more of the same, Sunbiggin Tarn and Little Asby Scar and Crosby Ravensworth Fell are close by. The closest station is Kirkby Stephen, about 9.5 km to the east.

More places to visit near Great Asby Scar

Photo of the Yorkshire Dales, a National Park in England.Iconic

Yorkshire Dales

You’re inside itNational Park near Gayle

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

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.

1.4 km S · North Yorkshire & Cumbria

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

Lake District

National Park near Grasmere

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

6.6 km W

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

River Eden

River

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

8.5 km NE · Cumbria

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.

10.7 km N · Cumbria

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

North Pennines

National Landscape near Wearhead

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

11 km NE