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Skiddaw Group

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Skiddaw Group is one of 235 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria. It is among the largest in the county. The surrounding countryside is part of the Lake District National Park.

Wigton Station is about 12.4 km away to the north. Nearby SSSIs include Mungrisdale Mires and Throstle Shaw and Sandbeds Fan.

More places to visit near Skiddaw Group

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

Lake District

You’re inside itNational Park near Grasmere

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.

Cumbria Way

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.

adjoining · Cumbria

Photo: Latrigg, a 369m Lake District fell near Applethwaite, Cumbria, north west England.

Latrigg

Wainwright near Applethwaite

A Wainwright — one of the fells of the Lake District.

0.9 km S

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.

1.9 km W

Photo of Castlerigg stone circle, a stone circle near Keswick in the Lake District, Cumbria, north west England.Iconic

Castlerigg stone circle

Stone circle near Keswick

Neolithic circle in a ring of fells.

2.1 km S

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

Caldbeck

Village

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

2.3 km N · Cumbria