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Keisley Quarry

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Keisley Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria, covering 0.08 km². It is one of 235 SSSIs in the county. The surrounding countryside is part of the North Pennines National Landscape.

The closest station is Appleby, about 4.2 km to the south-west. Other SSSIs nearby include Appleby Fells and Pus Gill.

More places to visit near Keisley Quarry

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

National Trail

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

1.2 km N · spans 8 counties

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

High Cup Nick

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.

2.8 km NE

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.

4.4 km SW · Cumbria

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.

4.5 km SW · Cumbria

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

Yorkshire Dales

National Park near Gayle

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

7.9 km SW