While I was up north I took the opportunity to visit the
Pennines, as I had never visited them before. I had a plan to do a bit of
waterfall photography, because I can’t resist a good waterfall, and the Pennines
have them in abundance, seeing as they form the main watershed in northern
England, dividing east and west.
Often described as the ‘backbone of England’, the Pennine
Hills form a more-or-less continuous range stretching northwards from the Peak
District, into the South Pennines incorporating parts of Lancashire, Yorkshire
and Greater Manchester, through the Yorkshire Dales and North Pennines past the
Cumbrian Fells up to the Tyne Gap, which separates the range from the Cheviot
Hills.
I was concentrating on the North Pennines, which is
classified as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is afforded much the same
protection as a National Park. Lying just north of the Yorkshire Dales, it
rivals the National Park in size and includes some of the Pennines' highest
peaks and some of its most isolated and sparsely populated areas.
