page_title: Pen-y-ghent
section_title: Hiking
hierarchical_section_title: Pen-y-ghent / Hiking
caption_attribution_description: English: Panoramic view of Pen-y-ghent, scaled down for use on WP. Original image is over 1.6m x 0.4m, printed on Dibond.
context_page_description: Pen-y-ghent or Penyghent is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is the lowest of Yorkshire's Three Peaks at 2,277 feet; the other two being Ingleborough and Whernside. It lies 1.9 miles east of Horton in Ribblesdale. It has a number of interesting geological features, such as Hunt Pot, and further down, Hull Pot. The waters that flow in have created an extensive cave system which rises at Brants Gill head.
  In 2004 the body of an unidentified female, dubbed by the media the "Lady of the Hills", was found near to the entrance of Sell Gill Hole.
context_section_description: The Pennine Way links the summit to the village; the route is around 3.1 miles (5 km) in length as the Way curves initially to the north before turning east to reach the summit. The more direct route that traverses the southern 'nose' of the hill is the route usually taken by those attempting the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge, as the walk is usually (but not exclusively) done in an anti-clockwise direction starting and finishing in Horton in Ribblesdale. The other main hillwalking route on the hill heads north from the summit to reach Plover Hill before descending to join Foxup Road, a bridleway at the head of Littondale.
  Pen-y-ghent is one of the mountains on the Yorkshire Three Peaks route.
caption: A panoramic image of Pen-y-ghent viewed from the west, on the footpath from Horton in Ribblesdale, January 2012. Plover Hill is the lower, more distant hill to the left.
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