Clints Crags

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| name = Clints Crags

| photo = Clints Crag Blindcrake.jpg

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| location = Lake District, England

| elevation_m = 245

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| prominence_m = 53

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| parent_peak = Binsey

| listing = Outlying Wainwright

| range = Northern Fells

| coordinates = {{coord|54.706|N|3.295|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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| topo = OS Landranger 96

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| map = United Kingdom Lake District

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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."{{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}} 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 pavement, which is also a designated SSSI. The fragile limestone habitat supports various rare calcareous species of flora and fauna.

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