Howgills
The Howgill Fells are uplands in Northern England between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, lying roughly within a triangle formed by the towns of Sedbergh and Kirkby Stephen and the village of Tebay.The Howgill Fells in Cumbria
''www.visitcumbria.com'' The name Howgill derives from the word ''haugr'' meaning a hill or barrow, plus ''gil'' meaning a narrow valley.

Geography

The Howgill Fells are bounded by the (and the

Tranearth Group
The Tranearth Group is a Silurian lithostratigraphy, lithostratigraphic group (stratigraphy), group (a sequence of rock strata) in the southern Lake District and Howgill Fells of the Pennines of northern England. The name is derived from the locality of Tranearth near Torver in Cumbria. The Group is included within the Windermere Supergroup. It comprises laminated hemipelagites and siltstones and some sandstones and limestone which achieve a thickness of between 500 and 1000m. It is divided into a lower Brathay Formation which is overlain by the Birk Riggs Formation (not present in the Howgills) and then by an upper Coldwell Formation. References

* {{Refend Silurian System of Europe Geology of England Geological groups of the United Kingdom Geologic formations of the United Kingdom ...
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