Axe Edge Moor is the major moorland southwest of

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. 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

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). The moor is the source of the River Dove,

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and River Goyt. It boasts England's second-highest public house (the

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). The moor is shared between the counties of

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and

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, which meet on its southwestern flank at Three Shire Heads on the Dane. The Axe Edge itself is on the southeastern edge, near the source of the Dove. Axe Edge Watershed (small)

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