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Wharfedale is the valley of the upper parts of the River Wharfe situated in North Yorkshire
Towns and villages in Wharfedale (downstream, from west to east) include Buckden and Kettlewell.
Great Whernside is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales, not to be confused with Whernside, some 17 miles to the west. Its summit is the highest point of the eastern flank of Wharfedale above Kettlewell. Great Whernside forms the watershed between Wharfedale and Nidderdale, and is on the boundary between the Yorkshire Dales National Park and Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The River Nidd rises on the eastern slopes of Great Whernside, above Angram Reservoir.
Buckden Pike is a fell at the head of Wharfedale, that stands above the village of Buckden,
At 702 metres it narrowly misses out on being the highest peak in the area, the title instead going to nearby Great Whernside (704 metres)
The Summit is marked by a Trig Point.
'On the summit of Buckden Pike, standing south of the Trig Point, close by the boundary wall, is one of the saddest monuments in the Dales. A stone cross with fragments of aircraft parts embedded in its concrete base stands as a memorial to a Polish crew of an RAF plane that crashed at this spot during a severe snowstorm in the Second World War. There was one survivor.'
…an extract from the book ‘Walking the Dales’ by Mike Harding.
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