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Black Hill is a hill in the Peak District lying on the border between Kirklees borough and Derbyshire, reaching 582 metres above sea level. The Pennine Way is a long-distance footpath in England. ...
A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ...
The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International dUnités). ...
A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a metre. ...
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Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (2001) - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Ethnicity...
In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height or prime factor (in Europe), is a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains. ...
Example of a topographic map with contour lines Topographic maps, also called contour maps, topo maps or topo quads (for quadrangles), are maps that show topography, or land contours, by means of contour lines. ...
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The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
Peak bagging (also hill bagging, mountain bagging, or among enthusiasts, just bagging) is a popular activity for hillwalkers and mountaineers in which they attempt to reach the summit of each peak in a region above some height, or having a particular feature. ...
A Marilyn is a hill with a relative height of at least 150 metres, regardless of absolute height or other merit. ...
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Kirklees is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire. ...
Derbyshire (pronounced Dar-bee-shur) is a county in the East Midlands of England, which boasts some of Englands most attractive scenery. ...
The top is peaty and thus very boggy after rain. The area surrounding the summit itself has virtually no vegetation and is very dark, giving the hill its name. However, Black Hill is crossed by the Pennine Way whose paved surface allows walkers to reach the top dry-shod even in the wettest of weather. The Pennine Way is a long-distance footpath in England. ...
The hill can be visited by a number of routes, including along the Pennine Way from Crowden via the Laddow Rocks cliffs; bogs permitting, a return can be made over Westend Moss (the pre-1966 route of the Pennine Way) to create a pleasant circular walk. The Pennine Way is a long-distance footpath in England. ...
South of Crowden, the Pennine Way next visits Bleaklow and Kinder Scout (both of which are slightly higher, just over 2,000 ft, and so are Hewitts). Bleaklow is a high moorland, just north of Kinder Scout, across the Snake Pass (A57), in the Derbyshire High Peak. ...
Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau (and mountain) in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in the United Kingdom. ...
A Hewitt is a hill in England, Wales or Ireland over two thousand feet (609. ...
The triangulation column ("trig point") and highest point on Black Hill is on a small elevated mound, called Soldiers' Lump. According to Wainwright (A Wainwright, Pennine Way Companion) the support timbers for the Ramsden theodolite, used by the Royal Engineers in the original Ordnance Survey, were still to be found here many years later. The ship wants to know the distance d to the shore. ...
A trig point near Wootton Wawen. ...
Alfred Wainwright (1907 – 1991) was best known for his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. ...
The Ramsden theodolite was used in the first Ordnance Survey of Southern Britain. ...
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