Walk Blackstone Edge from Hollingworth Lake
Fine views - though can be windy(!)
This 6¼ mile, Grade 4 (Moderate), easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walk, complete with GPS Waypoints, starts at Hollingworth Lake Car Park & will take you about 3½ hrs to complete.
Detailed walk route map PDF | ||
Vital Statistics: | ||
| Walk No.: | gm102 | |
| Length: | 6¼ miles (10km) | |
| Ascent: | 1017 ft (310m) | |
| Time: | 3½ hours | |
| Grade: |  | |
Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:
The Aiggin Stone is a gritstone pillar standing at nearly 4 feet high carved with an incised cross & the letters I and T.The plaque claims the Aiggin Stone is a Medieval waymarker that is some 600 years old. It also marked the boundary between Lancashire and Yorkshire.
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
 0 English Mountains |
 0 Wainwrights |
 0 English Nuttalls |
 0 English Deweys |
 0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
 0 Marilyns |
 1 Bridget |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Blackstone Edge at 472m (1549ft). Blackstone Edge is known as an English Bridget. The summit of Blackstone Edge is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of The Pennine Way, a 404km (251 miles) linear footpath connecting Edale in Derbyshire, England with Kirk Yetholm in The Borders, Scotland. The Pennine Way is waymarked by a National Trail Acorn. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Pennine Way.
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1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (pink/magenta covers):
Some Photos and Pictures from Walk Blackstone Edge from Hollingworth Lake
In no particular order . . .
Littleborough and Hollingworth Lake from the summit of Blackstone Edge
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