{{Short description|Small fell in Cumbria, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Clints Crags | image = Clints Crag Blindcrake.jpg | image_caption = | location = [[Lake District]], [[England]] | elevation_m = 245 | elevation_ref = | prominence_m = 53 | prominence_ref = | parent_peak = [[Binsey, Cumbria|Binsey]] | listing = [[List of Wainwrights|Outlying Wainwright]] | range = [[Northern Fells]] | coordinates = {{coord|54.706|N|3.295|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | grid_ref_UK = | topo = [[Ordnance Survey|OS]] ''Landranger'' 96 | type = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = | map = United Kingdom Lake District }}
'''Clints Crags''' is a small fell in the north of the English [[Lake District]] near [[Blindcrake]], [[Cumbria]]. It has its own chapter in [[Alfred Wainwright]]'s ''[[The Outlying Fells of Lakeland]]''. He describes a circular walk from Blindcrake, and laments that at the time of writing (1974): "This is a walk on public footpaths, but until somebody removes the barbed wire and other obstacles to legitimate progress it can be recommended only to gymnasts."<ref name=wainwright>{{cite book|last=Wainwright|first=A.|authorlink=Alfred Wainwright|title=[[The Outlying Fells of Lakeland]]|year=1974|publisher=Westmorland Gazette|location=Kendal|pages=204–205|chapter=Clints Crags}}</ref> It reaches {{convert|804|ft|m}}. Since the time of writing the barbed wire has been removed and the path to the summit is clear of obstructions.
Clints Crags offers a pleasant and easy stroll to the summit from the village of Blindcrake. The gradient of the crags is much steeper rising north out of the Isel valley; however. there are no footpaths to the crags from the valley bottom. There is an old limestone quarry near the summit of the hill, now an [[SSSI]], home to a rare species of newt that breeds in the old quarry lakes. The summit is a large expanse of limestone outcrops and [[limestone pavement|pavement]], which is also a designated SSSI. The fragile limestone habitat supports various rare calcareous species of flora and fauna. [[File:Mossy Clints - geograph.org.uk - 89789.jpg|thumb|Limestone pavement on Clints Crags]]
==Other places of the same name== There are other places called '''Clints Crags''' in [[Wensleydale]], North Yorkshire (just south of [[Leighton Reservoir]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Clints Crags|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/494961|work=Geograph|accessdate=6 May 2012}}</ref> and above [[Ireshopeburn]] in [[Weardale]], [[County Durham]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ireshope Burn at Clints Crags, with cave|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2186610|work=Geograph|accessdate=6 May 2012}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://clintscrags.co.uk Clints Crags]
{{commons category|Clints Crags, Cumbria}} {{Outlying Fells}}
[[Category:Fells of the Lake District]] [[Category:Escarpments of England]] [[Category:Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria]]
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