Moor House-Upper Teesdale

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Moor House-Upper Teesdale is a National Nature Reserve, straddling County Durham and Cumbria. It is one of six National Nature Reserves in the county. It lies inside the North Pennines National Landscape.

Appleby Station is about 8.2 km away to the south-west. Nearby nature reserves include Lune Forest, Moorhouse and Cross Fell and Upper Teesdale.

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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

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Pennine Way

National Trail

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

adjoining · spans 8 counties

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Holwick Scars

Rock formation near Holwick

Line of dark dolerite crags above Holwick, part of the same Whin Sill that carries High Force.

0.4 km E

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Summerhill Force and Gibson's Cave

Waterfall near Holwick

Curtain of water on Bow Lee Beck falling past a recess where an outlaw once hid, a short walk from Bowlees.

0.9 km E

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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.

4.1 km SW