Jenny Dam

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Jenny Dam is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria, covering 0.01 km². The county has 235 Sites of Special Scientific Interest; this is one. It is one of the smaller SSSIs in the county. It lies inside the Lake District National Park.

Scout and Cunswick Scars and Knipe Tarn are among the SSSIs within 3.6 km. Staveley Station is about 2.6 km away to the north.

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

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