'Force Gill Aqueduct'

Location : Ribblehead / Dent
Map - Ordnance Survey - SD 761817

Photo by Steven Partridge from Geograph

Looking south towards Ingleborough. Photo by DS Pugh from Geograph

Photo by Mark Anderson from Geograph

Looking north to Blea Moor tunnel from the aqueduct. Photo by Ann Bowker

The railway passing under the aqueduct. Photo by DS Pugh from Geograph

Force Gill Waterfall. Photo by Stephen Horncastle from Geograph

Force Gill Waterfall. Photo by Ann Bowker

This aqueduct was built by the Midland railway to carry the waters from Force Gill into Dale Beck across the line below the southern entrance to Blea Moor Tunnel.

The aqueduct has recently been extensively refurbished by Railtrack. A concrete channel was originally planned but after an appropriate uproar, this sympathetic reconstruction was done.

The aqueduct is crossed on the footpath from Ribblehead viaduct to Whernside. It is about a mile and a half north of the viaduct.

Related Links :

• Mad About Mountains (Ann Bowker) - 22nd May 2007 - Today's walk (Keswick rambling club): Ribblehead - Whernside - Chapel-le-Dale
• Force Gill waterfall
• Blea Moor - Jim Redfern
• Ramblers Association Forum - ascending Whernside via Ribblehead
• Flickr pge's photos - Ribblehead and Force Gill