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Great Asby Scar, Asby
Great Asby Scar
Asby Scar
civil parish:-   Asby (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Crosby Ravensworth (formerly Westmorland)
civil parish:-   Orton S (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   locality
locality type:-   rocks
locality type:-   National Nature Reserve
coordinates:-   NY65511028 (etc) 
1Km square:-   NY6510
10Km square:-   NY61
10Km square:-   NY60
SummaryText:-   this is used as a label for the whole area of Asby Scar


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BNN52.jpg (taken 10.4.2007)  
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BNN53.jpg (taken 10.4.2007)  

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 22 10) 
placename:-  Great Asby Scar
placename:-  Asby Scar, Great
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.


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CCM45.jpg (taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM46.jpg (taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM57.jpg  Limestone pavement,
(taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM58.jpg  Limestone pavement,
and a shelter?
(taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM60.jpg  Limestone pavement,
(taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM63.jpg  Limestone pavement,
(taken 17.2.2015)  


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CCM67.jpg  Tree.
(taken 17.2.2015)  


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CCM36.jpg  Cairn,
(taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM42.jpg  Cairn,
(taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM43.jpg  Cairn,
(taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM47.jpg  Cairn,
(taken 17.2.2015)  
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CCM59.jpg  Cairn,
(taken 17.2.2015)  

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Limestone pavements, landscape of clints, grikes and runnels, with galcial erratic boulders of pink shap granite and red sandstone.

: 2004: Great Asby Scar: English Nature:: ISBN 1 85716 816 X; small leaflet

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