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View from Low Lane across Coverdale to Carlton and Carlton Peat Moor
©Jeremy Howat
A wintry view looking across West Scrafton to the distant Roova Crags
©Anthony Harrison
Great Gill is one of several small streams which drain off the highland to the south of West Scrafton.
©Roger Nunn
Dist:0.1km<br/>This is the new bridge replacing an older one that crosses Great Gill in West Scrafton - the keystone gives a date of 2002.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.1km<br/>A frozen and snow-covered ghyll which is often a fast-flowing river
©Anthony Harrison
Dist:0.1km<br/>The stream flowing under the bridge is Great Gill which meets the larger River Cover about a quarter of a mile north of West Scrafton.
©Roger Nunn
Dist:0.1km<br/>The original packhorse bridge temporarily revealed during the reconstruction of the more modern bridge.
©Anthony Harrison
Dist:0.1km<br/>Great Gill tumbles under the bridge towards the River Cover.
©Colin Gregory
Dist:0.1km<br/>After three days of being cut off apart from farm vehicles, the village was gritted allowing those who live near the road to get out
©Anthony Harrison
Dist:0.1km<br/>Charming village in Coverdale on the road from Coverham, just before it crosses Bow Bridge.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Taken at 3pm when the low sun was shining through the snow-laden trees
©Anthony Harrison
Dist:0.2km<br/>The village green can be seen in some episodes of "All Creatures Great and Small" and was described by Alf Wight (James Herriot) as the smallest he had ever seen. It was constructed around 1960.
©Anthony Harrison
Dist:0.2km<br/>Primitive Methodist Chapel founded in 1866.
©Chris Heaton
Dist:0.2km<br/>Immediately below Bow Bridge. In total the cave is 900m long and 44m deep. The water emerges at Otter's Cave http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/347087 just above the River Cover.
©Karl and Ali
Dist:0.2km<br/>Approaching the village from the south via the bridleway over East Scrafton Moor.
©Karl and Ali

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