Ingleborough National Nature Reserve
Ingleborough NNR is renowned for the wildlife and geology of its limestone pavements and other limestone features. The area’s national and international importance has been recognised by English Nature through the creation of this reserve which covers an area of 1014 hectares.
Ingleborough Hill is one of the famous Three Peaks in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, the others being Pen-y-ghent and Whernside.
At Ingleborough, natural processes over the ages have created a majestic landscape of exceptional limestone pavements, gritstone capped peaks, underground caverns and a wealth of wildlife.
The range of rock types, soils and altitudes, together with the effects of human management down the years, have produced intriguing and varied communities of plants, insects, birds and other animals.
The rocks at Ingleborough were laid down some 300 million years ago. The huge expanses of Great Scar limestone rock, revealed and pressurised by glaciers, produced dramatic exposures of so-called pavements. Ingleborough Hill is famous for this stark, giant cobbled ‘runway’ and for other limestone features including the scars, dry valleys and extensive cave systems.
Location: The NNR is a large area that can be accessed from several points, including the town of Ingleton. There are no bus services but the area can be reached by rail using either Ribblehead or Horton in Ribblesdale stations on the splendid Settle to Carlisle railway.
Grid reference: SD773783
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