Oliver Hill, Peak District

Name: Oliver Hill
Address: Peak District, United Kingdom

#111 among attractions in Peak District

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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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. The summit has a tiny cairn near some aerials. ()

Elevation: 1683 ftProminence: 148 ftCoordinates: 53°12'19"N, 1°57'39"W

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

Nearby attractions include: Lud's Church, Buxton Opera House, Poole's Cavern, The Roaches.

2.7 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Lud's Church, Peak District
70 min walk • Lud's Church is a deep chasm penetrating the Millstone Grit bedrock created by a massive landslip on the hillside above Gradbach, Staffordshire, England.
4.1 miNE
Opera, Concerts and shows, Music venue
Buxton Opera House, Buxton
105 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.
3.4 miNE
Natural attraction, National park, Park
Poole's Cavern, Buxton
87 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.
3.3 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
The Roaches, Peak District
84 min walk • The Roaches is a prominent rocky ridge above Leek and Tittesworth Reservoir in the Staffordshire Peak District of England. The ridge with its rock formations rises steeply to 505 m.
3.4 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Shutlingsloe, Peak District
86 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.
2.7 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Chrome Hill, Peak District
69 min walk • Chrome Hill is a limestone reef knoll in Derbyshire, England, in the upper Dove valley beside the border with Staffordshire. It is adjacent to Parkhouse Hill, another reef knoll. Chrome Hill was declared open access land under the provisions of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000.
2.3 miE
Mountain
High Edge, Peak District
60 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.
4 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Blakemere Pond, Peak District
102 min walk • Blakemere Pond, also known as Black Mere Pool or Mermaid's Pond, is a small, natural lake in Staffordshire, England, six miles north-west of Leek. The pond is the subject of an enduring legend that claims that the water is haunted by the ghost of a mermaid.
2.7 miW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St Saviour's Church, Peak District
70 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.
3.3 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Parkhouse Hill, Peak District
84 min walk • Parkhouse Hill is a small but distinctive hill in the Peak District National Park in the English county of Derbyshire. It lies on the north side of the River Dove, close to the border with Staffordshire.
3.5 miN
Mountain
Burbage Edge, Peak District
90 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.