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Dist:0.1km<br/>St Mary's Church photographed from the A595. Black Combe's lower slopes are in the background and the former Whicham School playing fields in the foreground.
©Mark Jenkinson
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©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.2km<br/>The flank of Black Combe in the background is called Parsonage Breast on the OS 1:25,000 map.
©Andrew Hill
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©Andrew Hill
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©Nigel Chadwick
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©Nigel Chadwick
Dist:0.5km<br/>Photograph taken from the A595 in front of St Mary's Church, Whicham.
©Mark Jenkinson
Dist:0.5km<br/>At first glance a 'tin tabernacle' corrugated iron building, but closer inspection showed it to be clad in asbestos concrete.
©David Long
Dist:0.6km<br/>Gate and stile at the start of the Public Bridleway to Black Combe
©Rob Noble
Dist:0.6km<br/>Black Combe rising beyond.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.7km<br/>An "up" train of reprocessed nuclear material from BNFL at Sellafield (perhaps destined for a Polaris refit at nearby Barrow shipyard) awaits a green light at Silecroft station. The spectacular Furness line from Barrow to Carlisle might have disappeared long ago but for Sellafield's economic significance in West Cumbria.
©Andrew Woodhall
Dist:0.7km<br/>On the minor road going west from Haverigg.
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.7km<br/>Narrow footpath from Fell Brow to Sledbank
©Chris Upson
Dist:0.9km<br/>View of the lane from Po House to the main road.
©Andrew Hill
Dist:0.9km<br/>The most southerly point of the ridge that runs south west from Black Combe is named Seaness on the 1:25000 OS maps. The view is looking north-east, past the source of Moorgill Beck, and the adjacent bridleway, towards the summit of Black Combe beyond.
©Rob Noble

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