Black Chew Head in Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is the highest point or List of English counties by highest point, 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, Derbyshire, 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 (Peak District), Black Hill, meaning Kinder Scout is its parent peak. It overlooks the Chew Valley, Greater Manchester, 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, Greater Manchester, Greenfield via the Chew Reservoir (Greater Manchester), Chew Reservoir access road. The hill is also accessible from Crowden, Derbyshire, Crowden in Derbyshire and from the A635 road, A635 to the north. The Pennine Way runs just to the east of the summit on its way from Crowden to Black Hill. The summit lies a short distance east of the 2018 United Kingdom wildfires, June 2018 wildfire on Saddleworth Moor, but was not within the burned area.

References

External links

Black Chew Head, England
Peakbagger.com.

Fen Running and Fell Walking.

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