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Stanage Edge, or simply Stanage (from "stone edge") is a gritstone escarpment in the English Peak District, famous as a location for climbing. The northern part of the edge forms the border between the High Peak of Derbyshire and Sheffield in South Yorkshire. Its highest point is High Neb at 458 metres above sea level. Areas of Stanage were quarried in the past to produce millstones, and some can still be seen on the hillside - carved, but never removed. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 577 pixelsFull resolution (2400 × 1730 pixel, file size: 681 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ...
The metre (American English:meter) is a measure of length. ...
A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ...
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. ...
South Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber Government Office Region of England, in the United Kingdom. ...
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The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and South and West Yorkshire. ...
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Gritstone is a sedimentary rock composed of coarse sand grains and is a coarser version of sandstone. ...
In geology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves an elevation differential, often involving high cliffs. ...
Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the United Kingdom anthem is God Save the Queen. ...
The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and South and West Yorkshire. ...
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High Peak is a local government district and borough of the county of Derbyshire, England. ...
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Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, England. ...
South Yorkshire is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber Government Office Region of England, in the United Kingdom. ...
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A paved packhorse road ran along the top of the edge, and remains of it can be seen, as can remains of the Long Causeway Roman road which works its way over the edge on its route from Templeborough to Brough-on-Noe. Some cairns along the top are even older, and there is a well-known cave in the cliff known as Robin Hood's Cave. More recent features include early twentieth century drinking basins, designed to collect pure rainwater for grouse to drink. A packhorse, pack horse or pack pony is a horse or pony used for carrying goods in sidebags or panniers. ...
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Templeborough (grid reference SK410916) is a district in the metropolitan borough of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England. ...
Hope is a village in the Derbyshire Peak District, in England. ...
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Stanage is a magnet for climbers and ramblers in addition to runners. The Stanage Struggle is a popular local fell race that starts in nearby Hathersage and rises to High Neb before returning to the village 500 ft below. Hathersage (from heathers edge) is a village in Derbyshire Peak District, in England. ...
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Rock climbing
 Climbers on The Tippler ( graded E1 5b) Stanage's naturally weathered millstone grit face is now known as a highly popular location for rock climbing in the Peak District. The edge runs four miles north from the Cowper Stone to Stanage End. It is the northernmost of an almost continuous line of cliffs, including Burbage Rocks, Froggatt Edge, Curbar Edge, Baslow Edge and Birchen Edge. The Cowper Stone is a block of gritstone at the most southerly point of Stanage. Set alone a few hundred metres from the last buttress of the main crag, it is a large boulder with distinctive rounded breaks running across it [1]. It is the scene of some classic hard grit routes of the 1980s first climbed by protagonists such as Johnny Dawes and John Allen. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (1752 × 1168 pixel, file size: 254 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Climbers on The Tippler (E1 5b), Stanage Edge, Derbyshire. ...
Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (1752 × 1168 pixel, file size: 254 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Climbers on The Tippler (E1 5b), Stanage Edge, Derbyshire. ...
In mountaineering and related climbing sports, climbers give a climbing grade to a route that attempts to assess the difficulty and danger of climbing the route. ...
Gritstone is a sedimentary rock composed of coarse sand grains and is a coarser version of sandstone. ...
Rock climbers on Ellis Eliminate (grade VS 4c) on Stanage. ...
Froggatt Edge is a gritstone escarpment in the county of Derbyshire, England. ...
Birchen Edge is a rock face in the Peak District, United Kingdom, popular with novices since the majority of the routes are in the lower grades. ...
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Johnny Dawes born 1964 is a British rock climber. ...
Although the edge reaches only 30 m in height it is one of the most famous UK climbing venues: aside from having a plethora of routes close to a major population centre, it is home to the route Right Unconquerable (HVS 5a), which, when first climbed by Joe Brown in 1949, was considered a milestone achievement in British climbing. The metre (American English:meter) is a measure of length. ...
Joe Brown (born September 1930) is a English climber, born the seventh and last child of a family in the Manchester suburb of Ardwick. ...
See also Map showing the location of Standedge in the United Kingdom Standedge (normally pronounced Stannige) is a moorland escarpment in the Pennine Hills of northern England. ...
Moorland in the Pennines (England); Coarse grasses and bracken tend to dominate especially in high rainfall areas. ...
In geology, an escarpment is a transition zone between different physiogeographic provinces that involves an elevation differential, often involving high cliffs. ...
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References - ^ Rockfax page on the Cowperstone
Coordinates: 53°20′50.25″N, 1°37′59.74″W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
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