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Nine Standards Rigg

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and approximately 770 yards (700 m) outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Nine Standards Rigg lies within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The name is derived from a group of
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The Nine Standards themselves, some of which were originally more than four metres high, are on the line of the
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of the eastern Lake District can be seen further to the west.
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The Nine Standards offer a better viewpoint than the
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Index


Elevation
Prominence
Parent peak
Great Shunner Fell
Listing
Marilyn
Hewitt
Nuttall
Pennines
England
OS grid
NY825061
Topo map
OS
Pennine Hills
Cumbria
North Yorkshire
Kirkby Stephen
cairns
Coast to Coast Walk
Keld
marked the boundary
Westmorland
Swaledale
watershed
catchment
Beck
Ordnance Survey
trig point

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