Bleaklow

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Bleaklow

The boggy "summit" of Bleaklow
Elevation 633 m (2,077 ft)
Location Peak District, England
Prominence c. 128 m
Topo map OS Landranger 110
OS grid reference SK093959
Listing Hewitt, Nuttall

Bleaklow is a high moorland, just north of Kinder Scout, across the Snake Pass (A57), in the Derbyshire High Peak. Much of it is nearly 2,000 ft above sea level and it is the source of the River Derwent.

Bleaklow Head, the high point at the western side of the moor, is a Hewitt and is crossed by the Pennine Way. It is one of three summits on this plateau above 2,000 ft (610 m), the others being Bleaklow Stones (SK116964, 628 m), some 3 km to the east along an indefinite ridge, and Higher Shelf Stones 1.5 km south of Bleakow Head (SK089948, 621 m). Bleaklow includes the most easterly point in the British Isles over 2000 ft, near Bleaklow Stones.

Much of the main plateau of Bleaklow is a boggy peat moorland, seamed by 'groughs' (pronounced 'gruffs', water-eroded channels in the peat), and lacking strong changes in elevation — in poor conditions its traverse is probably the most navigationally challenging in the Peak District.

On 3rd November 1948, Boeing RB-29A Superfortress 44-61999 of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division, Strategic Air Command, USAF crashed at Higher Shelf Stones whilst on route from Scampton to Burtonwood. A large amount of wreckage is still visible.

Bleaklow is part of the National Trust's High Peak Estate.

[edit] External links

  • Computer generated summit panorama Bleaklow index
  • There is an interesting weblog concerning all things Bleaklow at bleaklow.com. [Not currently working]. (The author of the site is a voluntary park ranger in the Bleaklow area).
  • There is a Dark Peak fieldwork website which includes a virtual tour of the Dark Peak area of the Peak District, and includes Bleaklow Dark Peak Co-authors are Cassandra Worman and Julia McMorrow (School of Geography, Manchester University).
  • PeakDistrictAirCrashes.co.uk. Resources about the B-29 wreck and other air accidents in this region.
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