Walk Route Map gm102 Blackstone Edge from Hollingworth Lake

Walk gm102 Blackstone Edge from Hollingworth Lake

Fine views - though can be windy(!)

Vital Statistics:

Length:	6¼mls (10km)
Ascent:	1,017ft (310m)
Time:	3½hrs
Grade:

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Route outline for walk gm102:

Hollingworth Lake Car Park - Ealees Brook - Brearley - Whittaker Golf Club - Lydgate - Blackstone Edge Pasture - The Pennine Way - Aiggin Stone - Blackstone Edge - Robin Hood Bed - Broad Head Drain - Hoar Edge - Clegg Moor - Dry Moor - Benny Hill - Syke Nab - Hollingworth Lake.

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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:

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Mountains

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Wainwrights

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Nuttalls

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Deweys

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Wainwright
Outlying Fells

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Marilyns

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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.

You can find more walks near this one on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps: (click/TAP to select)

1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (the ones with orange/yellow covers):

OL21 South Pennines

1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (the ones with pink/magenta covers):

109 Manchester, Bolton & Warrington

Some Photos and Pictures from Walk gm102 Blackstone Edge from Hollingworth Lake

In no particular order . . .

The Aiggin Stone

Photo: Christine Shepherd (785)

The Jubilee Walkers on top of Blackstone Edge above Littleborough

Photo: David Morecroft (13)

Blackstone Edge Summit Trig Point

Photo: Christine Shepherd (788)

The Aiggin Stone on Blackstone Edge

Photo: Sue Sutcliffe (1)

My son Ben Collier (12) on top of Blackstone Edge

Photo: Bob Collier (3)

My son Ben Collier (12) on top of Blackstone Edge

Photo: Bob Collier (1)

The Aiggin Stone

Photo: Christine Shepherd (786)

Littleborough and Hollingworth Lake from the summit of Blackstone Edge

Photo: Christine Shepherd (787)

Blackstone Edge summit trig point

Photo: Bob Collier (2)

The Aiggin Stone plaque and cairn on Blackstone Edge

Photo: Sue Sutcliffe (2)

On Blackstone Edge near Rochdale on Easter Saturday 2013

Photo: Geraldine Boocock (1)

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