| Clints Crags | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 245 m (804 ft) |
| Prominence | 53 m (174 ft) |
| Parent peak | Binsey |
| Listing | Outlying Wainwright |
| Coordinates | 54°42′22″N3°17′42″W / 54.706°N 3.295°W |
| Geography | |
  Clints Crags | |
| Parent range | Northern Fells |
| Topo map | OS Landranger 96 |
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." [1] It reaches 804 feet (245 m). Since the time of writing the barbed wire has been removed and the path to the summit is clear of obstructions.
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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 pavement, which is also a designated SSSI. The fragile limestone habitat supports various rare calcareous species of flora and fauna.
