Pus Gill

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Pus Gill is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria, covering 0.02 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 North Pennines National Landscape.

Other SSSIs nearby include Appleby Fells and Keisley Quarry. For arrivals by rail, Appleby Station is about 5.3 km to the south.

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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.

0.9 km SE · spans 8 counties

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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.

3.8 km E