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Bamford Edge is an overhang of gritstone rock that sticks out north of the village of Bamford, Hope Valley, in the English county of Derbyshire. [3] The first ascent of "Smoked Salmon", which is graded as E8 7b was made by British climber Johnny Dawes .
The village has a sculpture trail and, in mid-July, there is a well dressing festival. Bamford has four public houses, the Derwent Hotel (now a self-catering venue), the Anglers Rest, the Ladybower Inn and the Yorkshire Bridge Inn, the latter once home to former Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves. [6]
An ancient trail of which perhaps two-thirds is still identifiable, much of it now incorporated into the North Downs Way National Trail. [46] Quantock Greenway: 37 60: Somerset: N/A: N/A: A figure-of-eight centred on Triscombe in the Quantock Hills. River Parrett Trail: 50 80: Dorset & Somerset: Chedington: Bridgwater Bay, Bristol Channel
Ten Tors is an annual weekend hike on Dartmoor. Hawk's Tor, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. Cornwall ... Derwent Edge (505m) Great Tor, Bamford; Higger Tor. Higger Tor (384m) ...
Derwent Edge is a Millstone Grit escarpment that lies above the Upper Derwent Valley in the Peak District National Park in the English county of Derbyshire. An Ordnance Survey column marks the highest point of the Edge at Back Tor (538 metres, 1765 feet). [1] North of Back Tor the edge extends into Howden Edge and enters the county of South ...
The Ashopton Viaduct (left) carries the Snake Pass A57 road and the Ladybower Viaduct carries the A6013 to Bamford over the reservoir. Ladybower was built between 1935 and 1943 by the Derwent Valley Water Board to supplement the other two reservoirs in supplying the water needs of the East Midlands. It took a further two years to fill, which ...
Brough and Shatton is a civil parish in Hope Valley in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England.It is named for the two hamlets of Brough-on-Noe and Shatton. [1] Brough is about 2 km, or just over 1 mile, west (upstream) of Shatton; both are on the River Noe, a tributary of the upper River Derwent.
Rock climbing is a popular activity in the Peak District; particularly on edges such as Stanage or Froggatt.Generally the climbing style is free climbing (as opposed to aid climbing) [citation needed] and the rock is either gritstone or limestone.