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Over Water

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Over Water is one of 235 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria. It lies within the Lake District National Park. Skiddaw Group and Throstle Shaw and Sandbeds Fan are among the SSSIs within 6 km. The closest station is Aspatria, about 12.2 km to the north-west.

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

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

Photo along the Cumbria Way, a 70-mile long-distance path running from Ulverston to Carlisle, north west England.

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Long-distance path

Through the Lake District's heart at valley level — Coniston, Langdale, Borrowdale and Caldbeck between the old market towns of Ulverston and Carlisle.

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Photo of Whitewater Dash (Dash Falls), a waterfall near Uldale in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

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A long ribbon of falls on the northern flank of Skiddaw, reached by an old track from the Bassenthwaite fells.

4.2 km SE

Photo of Bassenthwaite Lake, a Lake in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Bassenthwaite Lake

Lake near Bassenthwaite

Alone among the Cumbrian waters in being called a lake by name, a shallow sheet under Skiddaw where ospreys returned to breed.

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Photo of The Howk, a waterfall near Caldbeck in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

The Howk

Waterfall near Caldbeck

A limestone ravine and waterfalls on the beck at Caldbeck, past the ruin of a bobbin mill that once held a huge water wheel.

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Photo of Caldbeck, a village in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

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Village

Fellside village on the northern edge of the Lakes, with John Peel's grave, a millpond and the wooded Howk gorge.

8.7 km NE · Cumbria