- See also Binsey, Oxfordshire
Binsey is a hill on the northern edge of the Lake District in Cumbria, England. It is detached from the rest of the Lakeland hills, and thus provides a good spot to look out at the northern and north-western hills of the Lake District, as well as the coastal plain and, across the Solway Firth, Scotland. A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ...
The metre (Commonwealth English) or meter (American English) (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ...
A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a metre. ...
The panorama across Eskdale from Ill Crag. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ...
In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height, shoulder drop or prime factor (in Europe), is a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains. ...
Example of a topographic map with contour lines Topographic maps, also called contour maps, topo maps or topo quads (for quadrangles), are maps that show topography, or land contours, by means of contour lines. ...
Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. ...
The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
Peak bagging (also hill bagging, mountain bagging, or among enthusiasts, just bagging) is a popular activity for hillwalkers and mountaineers in which they attempt to reach the summit of each peak in a region above some height, or having a particular feature. ...
A Marilyn is a hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres, regardless of absolute height or other merit. ...
Alfred Wainwright listed 214 fells in total in his series of seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. ...
The panorama across Eskdale from Ill Crag. ...
Cumbria is a county in the North West region of England. ...
Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ...
Map of Solway Firth. ...
Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the UK Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ...
The hill is largely grass and heather, with only one significant outcrop of rock, West Crag. There are several small disused quarries. The hill is of volcanic rock, being just outside the Skiddaw slates area. A grassy swamp. ...
Heather may be: In botany, the plant Calluna vulgaris, or, more loosely, various species of the closely related genera Erica and Cassiope, low evergreen shrubs (also called heaths). The term is also used to describe land which is vegetated with these plants; In apparel or textiles, interwoven yarns with a...
A small cinder quarry A dimension stone quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted. ...
Ignimbrite is a deposit of a pyroclastic flow. ...
The summit is crowned by a tumulus whose stones have been raided to produce several small circular wind-shelters; there is also a trig point. A trig point near Wootton Wawen. ...
The hill can be climbed by several routes, perhaps most simply along the lane from the A591 road to the west, from where a loop to the left and behind the disused pit will enable the track across the summit to be picked up.
External links
- Computer generated summit panorama Binsey index
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