page_title: Whitbarrow
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hierarchical_section_title: Whitbarrow / References
caption_attribution_description: English: Cairn on the high point of Whitbarrow, Cumbria
context_page_description: Whitbarrow is a hill in Cumbria, England. Designated a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest and national nature reserve, it forms part of the Morecambe Bay Pavements Special Area of Conservation due to its supporting some of the best European examples of natural limestone habitats. Also known as Whitbarrow Scar, the hill lies about 9 kilometres south-west of Kendal, just north of the A590 road, close to the village of Witherslack. Part of the site is a local nature reserve called Whitbarrow Scar.
  It is a mixture of woodland, grassland and limestone pavement. The hill is prominent from the A590 road with its steep limestone cliffs, laid down in the Carboniferous period some 350 million years ago. The main cliff faces are made up of rocks known as Dalton Beds, above which are Urswick Limestones, of which the limestone pavement has been formed.
  Whitbarrow, like most of the Lake District, shows many signs of the last ice age, including glacial erratics, and the limestone pavement itself, formed when ice left bare limestone exposed to the elements which eroded it and left us with the grikes and clints we see today.
context_section_description: "Whitbarrow citation" (PDF). Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  "Map of Whitbarrow". Sites of Special Scientific Interest. Natural England. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  "Whitbarrow - Hervey Memorial Reserve". Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  "Whitbarrow Scar". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  "Map of Whitbarrow Scar". Local Nature Reserves. Natural England. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  Wainwright, A. (1974). "Whitbarrow". The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette. pp. 36–41.
caption: Cairn on Whitbarrow
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