Cunswick Scar

Cunswick Scar
Cunswick Scar Location in Lake District, UK
Highest point
Elevation	207 m (679 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	c. 39 m
Listing	Outlying Wainwright
Coordinates	54°19′25″N 2°47′14″W / 54.3237°N 2.78716°W / 54.3237; -2.78716Coordinates: 54°19′25″N 2°47′14″W / 54.3237°N 2.78716°W / 54.3237; -2.78716
Geography
Location	Cumbria, England
Parent range	Lake District
OS grid	SD489923
Topo map	OS Landranger 97

Cunswick Scar is a limestone scar (cliff or steep rock face) in the Lake District, England. There are extensive views from the large cairn at the top (207 metres (679 ft)).^[1] The scar is listed in the Scout Scar chapter of Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland.^[2]

Fossils can be found in the limestone on the scar and Cunswick Fell. The area is also of interest for its flora and fauna: Scout Scar and Cunswick Scar have been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.^[3]

References

1 2 "Cunswick Scar". Peakery. Retrieved 9 August 2015.
↑ Wainwright, A. (1974). "Scout Scar". The Outlying Fells of Lakeland. Kendal: Westmorland Gazette. pp. 2–7.
↑ "Scout and Cunswick Scars" (PDF). Natural England. Retrieved 24 September 2014.

Wainwright's The Outlying Fells of Lakeland

Chapters named for single summits	Beacon Fell Bigland Barrow Black Combe Blawith Knott Boat How Brant Fell Burney Caermote Hill Carron Crag Cartmel Fell Caw Claife Heights Clints Crags Cold Fell Dunmallet Dunnerdale Fells Faulds Brow Finsthwaite Heights Hampsfell Great Worm Crag Green Quarter Fell Gummer's How Hesk Fell Heughscar Hill High Knott Howes Hugill Fell Humphrey Head Irton Pike Knipescar Common Latterbarrow Muncaster Fell Newton Fell Orrest Head Ponsonby Fell Potter Fell Reston Scar School Knott Scout Scar Seat Robert Stainton Pike Staveley Fell Stickle Pike Top o'Selside Walna Scar Watch Hill Whitbarrow Whit Fell Woodland Fell

Chapters named for circuits, groups and horseshoes	Bannisdale Horseshoe Crookdale Horseshoe Devoke Water, Circuit of Flat Fell and Dent Naddle Horseshoe Wasdale Horseshoe Wet Sleddale Horseshoe

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