Cheeks Hill, Peak District

Name: Cheeks Hill
Address: Peak District, United Kingdom

#145 among attractions in Peak District

Nature, Natural attraction, Hill

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Cheeks Hill is a hill on Axe Edge Moor in the Peak District, England. It lies just south of the Cat and Fiddle Road near Buxton, and forms part of the border between Derbyshire and Staffordshire. The highest and most northerly point in Staffordshire, at 520 metres above sea level, is just south-west of its summit. ()

Elevation: 1706 ftCoordinates: 53°13'36"N, 1°57'43"W

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Cheeks Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Buxton Opera House, Poole's Cavern, The Slopes, Shutlingsloe.

2.9 miNE
Opera, Concerts and shows, Music venue
Buxton Opera House, Buxton
74 min walk • Buxton Opera House is in The Square, Buxton, Derbyshire, England. It is a 902-seat opera house that hosts the annual Buxton Festival and, from 1994 to 2013, the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, among others, as well as pantomime at Christmas, musicals and other entertainments year-round.
2.2 miNE
Natural attraction, National park, Park
Poole's Cavern, Buxton
56 min walk • Poole's Cavern or Poole's Hole is a two-million-year-old natural limestone cave on the edge of Buxton in the Peak District, in the county of Derbyshire, England. Pooles Cavern forms part of the Wye system, and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
2.9 miNE
Park
The Slopes, Buxton
75 min walk • The Slopes is a Grade-II-listed public park in Buxton, Derbyshire in England. The area was laid out by landscape architect Jeffry Wyatville in 1811 for William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, as pleasure grounds for the guests of The Crescent hotel to promenade.
3.1 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Shutlingsloe, Peak District
80 min walk • Shutlingsloe is a hill near the village of Wildboarclough, in the east of the county of Cheshire. It stands to the south of Macclesfield Forest, on the edge of the Peak District and within the Peak District National Park.
2.4 miE
Mountain
High Edge, Peak District
61 min walk • High Edge is a limestone hill overlooking Harpur Hill, Buxton in Derbyshire, in the Peak District. The summit is 472 metres above sea level. The lower hilltop is marked by a cairn. Following the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, this hilltop area became "Open Access" land for the public.
2.7 miW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Saviour's Church, Peak District
69 min walk • St Saviour's Church is in the village of Wildboarclough, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Macclesfield, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester.
3 miNE
Hot springs
St Ann's Well, Buxton
76 min walk • St Ann's Well is an ancient warm natural spring in Buxton, Derbyshire in England. The drinking well is located at the foot of The Slopes and opposite the Crescent hotel and the Old Hall Hotel.
3.1 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Shining Tor, Peak District
79 min walk • Shining Tor is the highest hill in the modern ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. The summit has a maximum elevation of 559 m above sea level.
2.1 miN
Mountain
Burbage Edge, Peak District
53 min walk • Burbage Edge is a gritstone escarpment overlooking the Burbage district of Buxton in Derbyshire, in the Peak District. The hill's summit is 500 metres above sea level. Not to be confused with the Burbage Rocks extension of Stanage Edge near Hathersage.
2.9 miNE
History museum, Museum, Natural history museum
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Buxton
75 min walk • Buxton Museum and Art Gallery focuses its collection on history, geology and archaeology primarily from the Peak District and Derbyshire. The museum is located at Terrace Road, Buxton, England. The museum opens Tuesday to Saturday all year round and from Easter to the end of September is also open on Sunday and Bank Holiday afternoons.
1.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Oliver Hill, Peak District
38 min walk • Oliver Hill is a hill, 513 metres high, in the Peak District in the county of Staffordshire in England. It is a treeless summit surrounded by farmland in the southern part of the Peak District about 6 kilometres south-southwest of the town of Buxton.

Cheeks Hill, Peak District

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Cheeks Hill – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)