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Salt Lake Quarry

Open accessin a National Nature Reserve open to the public

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Salt Lake Quarry is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, covering 0.04 km². It is one of 230 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It lies within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Other SSSIs nearby include Ashes Pasture and Meadows, Birkwith Caves and Fell and Brants Gill Catchment. The nearest railway station, Ribblehead, is under a kilometre away.

More places to visit near Salt Lake Quarry

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

Yorkshire Dales

You’re inside itNational Park near Gayle

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

Photo of Ribblehead Viaduct, a landmark near Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Ribblehead Viaduct

Landmark near Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Twenty-four arches of the Settle–Carlisle line striding across Batty Moss, built in the 1870s from navvy shanty towns whose dead fill Chapel-le-Dale's churchyard.

1.7 km NW

Photo along the Pennine Bridleway, a 205-mile National Trail running from Middleton Top or Hartington to A683 at Cote Moor, England.Highlight

Pennine Bridleway

National Trail

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

2.8 km E · spans 6 counties

Photo: Whernside, a 737m hill near Dent in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Whernside

Hewitt · Nuttall near Dent

Yorkshire's highest peak, above Ribblehead Viaduct.

4.7 km NW

Photo: Ingleborough, a 723m hill near Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Ingleborough

Hewitt · Nuttall near Ingleton

Flat-topped Yorkshire Three Peaks summit.

5 km SW

Photo of Gaping Gill, a cave near Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Gaping Gill

Cave near Clapham

One of Britain's largest cave chambers, big enough to swallow a cathedral, into which Fell Beck plunges beneath Ingleborough.

6.1 km S