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Thornton and Twisleton Glens

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Thornton and Twisleton Glens is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, covering 0.6 km². It is one of 230 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in the county. It lies inside the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Bentham Station is about 5.5 km away to the south-west. Leck Beck Head Catchment Area and Newby Moor are among the SSSIs within 4.2 km.

More places to visit near Thornton and Twisleton Glens

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 Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, a waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Ingleton Waterfalls Trail

Waterfall near Ingleton

A four-and-a-half-mile circuit of the Twiss and Doe gorges — Thornton Force, Pecca Falls and half a dozen more on England's most famous waterfall walk.

1.5 km SW

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.

4 km E

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.

5.3 km E

Photo of the Forest of Bowland, a National Landscape in England.Iconic

Forest of Bowland

National Landscape near Slaidburn

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

5.9 km SE

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.

7.7 km NE