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List Of Hills In The Peak District
This is a list of the hills of the Peak District of England. Most lie within the Peak District National Park, but others lie outside its borders. The list is sorted by absolute height, then by relative height. Marilyn (hill), Marilyns are marked in boldface. Kinder Scout and Bleaklow are the Peak District's only Mountain, mountains, with summit elevations over 600m and rising more than 30m above the surrounding land (although by other definitions Bleaklow does not meet the Topographic prominence, prominence threshold of a mountain). Sources Hill Bagging (the online version of the Database of British and Irish Hills)GetOutside (Ordnance Survey)* * References {{Reflist Mountains and hills of the Peak District, Lists of mountains and hills of England, Peak District ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleaklow Trig Point
Bleaklow is a high, largely peat-covered, gritstone moorland in the Derbyshire High Peak near the town of Glossop. It is north of Kinder Scout, across the Snake Pass ( A57), and south of the A628 Woodhead Pass. Much of it is nearly 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and the shallow bowl of Swains Greave on its eastern side is the source of the River Derwent. Bleaklow Head (633 m), marked by a huge cairn of stones, the high point at the western side of the moor, is a Hewitt and is crossed by the Pennine Way. It is one of three summits on this plateau above 2,000 feet, the others being Bleaklow Stones, some 1.9 miles (3 km) to the east along an indefinite ridge, and Higher Shelf Stones, 0.9 miles (1.5 km) south of Bleaklow Head. At 633 metres (2,077 feet), Bleaklow is the second-highest point in Derbyshire and the area includes the most easterly point in the British Isles over 2,000 feet, near Bleaklow Stones. Description Muc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kinder Scout
Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau and national nature reserve in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in England. Part of the moor, at above sea level, is the highest point in the Peak District, in Derbyshire and the East Midlands; this summit is sometimes simply called the Peak. In excellent weather conditions, the city of Manchester and the Greater Manchester conurbation can be seen from the western edges, as well as Winter Hill near Bolton and the mountains of Snowdonia in North Wales. To the north, across the Snake Pass, lie the high moors of Bleaklow and Black Hill, which are of similar elevation. Kinder Scout featured on the BBC television programme ''Seven Natural Wonders'' (2005) as one of the wonders of the Midlands; however, it is considered by many to be in Northern England, lying between the cities of Manchester and Sheffield. In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage of the Carboniferous period, the ''Kinderscoutian'', derives its name from Kinder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Chew Head
Black Chew Head in Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is the highest point or county top of Greater Manchester in northern England. It stands on moorland on the edge of the Peak District at a height of above sea level, close to the border with the High Peak district of Derbyshire. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire (along with the rest of Saddleworth), it became a county top in 1974 on the creation of Greater Manchester following the Local Government Act 1972. Location and access Black Chew Head is an outlying part of Black Hill, meaning Kinder Scout is its parent peak. It overlooks the Chew Valley, which leads eastwards and northwards to Dovestones Reservoir, and the valley of Crowden Great Brook leading south to Longdendale. The hill is accessible by many routes: the most used and most obvious is from Dovestones Reservoir in Greenfield via the Chew Reservoir access road. The hill is also accessible from Crowden in Derbyshire and from the A635 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mill Hill (Derbyshire)
Mill Hill is an open, flat-topped hill, 1,785 feet (544 m) above sea level, in the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England.''Mill Hill'' at www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 10 Mar 2016. Location Mill Hill is 2.5 miles (4 km) southeast of the town of in the hills of Derbyshire's Peak District and a similar distance northwest of the Peak's highest point on .Description Mill Hill is a bare, domed summit surrounded by peat moorland that lies on the route of the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Featherbed Top
Featherbed Top is an open, flat-topped hill, high, in the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England.''Featherbed Top'' at www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 10 Mar 2016. Description Featherbed Top is a bare, domed summit covered by peat moorland. It rises about south of where the Pennine Way crosses and ESE of the town ofGlossop
Glossop is a market town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It is located east of Manchester, nor ...
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Featherbed Moss
Featherbed Moss is a flat-topped hill, high, in the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England. It is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a joint county top.''Featherbed Moss'' at www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 10 Mar 2016. Description Featherbed Moss is a treeless, domed summit covered by moist peaty moorland vegetation. It rises south of . To the south the land falls increasingly steeply into the and, to the east into the ravine of the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margery Hill
Margery Hill is a hill on the Howden Moors in South Yorkshire, England. It lies towards the northern boundary of the Peak District National Park, between Langsett Reservoir to the northeast and Howden Reservoir to the southwest. The area is managed by the National Trust as part of their High Peak Estate. Peat near the summit cairn has been dated to a uniform age of about 3,500 years old, indicating that it was constructed rather than natural; it is believed to have been part of a Bronze Age burial mound. The area has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by English Heritage. Margery Hill is the highest marked point within the boundaries of the City of Sheffield. The land rises slightly to about to the south, near High Stones High Stones, at , is the highest point within the boundaries of both the City of Sheffield and South Yorkshire, England. High Stones lies on the Howden Moors towards in the northern Peak District National Park, between Langsett Reservoir to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rushup Edge
Rushup Edge is a ridge in the Derbyshire Peak District of England. The ridge's highest point is Lord's Seat at , while Mam Tor lies beyond its eastern end, at the western end of the Great Ridge. Lord's Seat is the site of a round barrow. Geology Rushup Edge is part of the ridge which extends east to Mam Tor, Hollins Cross, Back Tor and Lose Hill, separating the Edale and Hope valleys. The ridge is formed of Namurian (c320mya) age Mam Tor Beds (alternating sandstone and siltstone) and landslides on the north have formed colluvium. Protest In October 2014, mountain bikers, walkers, horse riders, climbers and conservationists held a protest against Derbyshire County Council maintenance work on the byway that runs along Rushup Edge. They were upset at the insensitive nature of the work, the cost, the environmental impact and the apparent lack of consultation with them before works began. Derbyshire County Council halted the work to speak with protesters in December 2014. See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axe Edge Moor
Axe Edge Moor is the major moorland southwest of Buxton in the Peak District. It is mainly gritstone (Namurian shale and sandstone). Its highest point () is at . This is slightly lower than Shining Tor (which is some to the northwest, across the modest dip of the incipient Goyt Valley). The moor is the source of the River Dove, River Manifold, River Dane, River Wye and River Goyt. It boasts England's second-highest public house (the Cat and Fiddle Inn). The moor is shared between the counties of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, which meet on its southwestern flank at Three Shire Heads Three Shire Heads (also known as Three Shires Head) is the point on Axe Edge Moor where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet, at UK grid reference , or . It is on the River Dane, which marks the Cheshire border in this area. On the eas ... on the Dane. The Axe Edge itself is on the southeastern edge, near the source of the Dove. References {{Authority control Hills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shining Tor
Shining Tor is the highest hill in Cheshire, England. The summit has a maximum elevation of above sea level. It is in the Peak District, between the towns of Macclesfield in Cheshire and Buxton in Derbyshire, and is on the administrative boundary between Derbyshire and Cheshire East. The hill is at the south end of a north-south moorland ridge, which also includes Cats Tor, high. There is also another hill named Shining Tor, above Dovedale in Derbyshire, at grid reference . Ascent The hill offers many walking routes to the top, perhaps most commonly from the Upper Goyt Valley by Errwood reservoir, perhaps combined with a walk along the ridge north from Shining Tor over Cats Tor. It can also be gained with less climbing from the Cat and Fiddle Inn. Views As it is the highest point around (it is some higher than the summit of Axe Edge Moor above Buxton), the views are pleasant, though the relatively flat uplands mean they are not extensive in all directions: the view to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Knoll
Brown Knoll is one of the highest hills in the Peak District in central England. It rises to a height of above the head of the Edale valley and about south-southwest of the Peak's highest point, Kinder Scout. Description Brown Knoll is a treeless, domed summit covered in moorland vegetation. A track between the Pennine Way and Pennine Bridleway runs past the summit to the northwest and a footpath branches off from that track crosses the summit itself and heads southeast to the hills lining the southern side of the valley of Edale. The area is designated Open Access land, but is outside the National Trust's High Peak Estate The High Peak Estate is an area of Pennine moorland in the ownership of the National Trust in the Dark Peak area of Derbyshire, England. The National Trust High Peak Estate is to be known as the 'Dark Peak Area' from summer 2010 which is now p .... References Mountains and hills of the Peak District Mountains and hills of Derbyshire Moorland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Hill (Peak District)
Black Hill, in the Peak District, is the highest hill in West Yorkshire, England. Its summit has a maximum elevation of above sea level. It is surpassed in height by only two other major summits in the Peak District (Kinder Scout and Bleaklow). Black Hill is a typical Pennine moorland mountain, with a very flat and extensive plateau (but steeper sides). The top is peaty, poorly drained, and thus very boggy after rain. The area surrounding the summit itself had virtually no vegetation and was very dark, giving the hill an appropriate name. However, recent restoration work has eliminated much of the exposed peat. Black Hill is crossed by the Pennine Way whose now-paved surface allows walkers to reach the top dry-shod even in the wettest of weather. Black Hill was the highest point (county top) of the historic county of Cheshire, lying at the tip of what was once known as the Cheshire Panhandle, a long projection of the county which lay to the north of the reservoir filled valle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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