Knipescar Common

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:Knipe Scar - geograph.org.uk - 1309691.jpg|thumb|right|The limestone outcrop of Knipe Scar]] '''Knipescar Common''', or '''Knipe Scar''', is an upland area in the east of the English [[Lake District]], above the [[River Lowther]], near [[Bampton, Cumbria|Bampton]], [[Cumbria]]. It is the subject of a chapter of [[Alfred Wainwright|Wainwright's]] book ''[[The Outlying Fells of Lakeland]]''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wainwright|first=A.|authorlink=Alfred Wainwright|title=[[The Outlying Fells of Lakeland]]|year=1974|publisher=Westmorland Gazette|location=Kendal|pages=220–223|chapter=Knipescar Common}}</ref> The summit is "indefinite" but reaches {{convert|1118|ft|m}} and there are limestone outcrops and an ancient enclosure. Wainwright commends the views which include [[Blencathra]] to the north and ''"a continuous skyline of the higher Pennines."''

Two ring cairns are [[scheduled monument]]s.<ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1007407|desc=Ring cairn on Knipescar Common| accessdate=21 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1007364|desc=Ring cairn on Knipescar Common south of Inscar Plantation | accessdate=21 June 2015}}</ref> The more northerly is the "ancient enclosure" described by Wainwright.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wainwright|first=A.|authorlink=Alfred Wainwright|title=[[The Outlying Fells of Lakeland]]|year=1974|publisher=Westmorland Gazette|location=Kendal|page=222|chapter=Knipescar Common | quote=The ancient enclosure, indicated on some maps as a Stone Circle and formerly referred to locally as a Druids Circle...}}</ref>

Immediately to the east of the southern part of Knipescar Common lies Shap Beck Quarry, an active limestone quarry.<ref>{{cite web|title=Shap Quarries|url=http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/shap-quarries/|website=Visit Cumbria|accessdate=21 June 2015}}</ref>

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[[Category:Fells of the Lake District]] [[Category:Bampton, Cumbria]]