Featherbed Moss is a flat-topped hill, high, in the

Peak District The Peak District is an upland area in England at the southern end of the Pennines. Mostly in Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southe ...

in the county of

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

in England. It is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a joint

county top The mountains and hills of the British Isles are categorised into various lists based on different combinations of elevation, prominence, and other criteria such as isolation. These lists are used for peak bagging, whereby hillwalkers attempt ...

.''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

Chew Reservoir Chew Reservoir is a reservoir at the head of the Chew Valley in the Peak District National Park in Greater Manchester, England. The reservoir scheme in the Greenfield and Chew Valleys by the Ashton Stalybridge and Dukinfield Waterworks Joint Com ...

. To the south the land falls increasingly steeply into the

Torside Reservoir Torside Reservoir is the largest man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire. It was constructed by John Frederick Bateman between April 1849 and July 1864 as part of the Longdendale chain to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban ...

and, to the east into the ravine of the Crowden Great Brook through which the

Pennine Way The Pennine Way is a National Trail in England, with a small section in Scotland. The trail stretches for from Edale, in the northern Derbyshire Peak District, north through the Yorkshire Dales and Northumberland National Park and ends at Kir ...

runs from north to south.

References

Mountains and hills of the Peak District Mountains and hills of Derbyshire Moorlands of England {{Derbyshire-geo-stub