Blackstone Edge

#3363 among destinations in the United Kingdom

Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain

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Blackstone Edge is a gritstone escarpment at 1,549 feet above sea level in the Pennine hills surrounded by moorland on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire in England. ()

Elevation: 1549 ftCoordinates: 53°38'24"N, 2°2'35"W

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Blackstone Edge – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Booth Wood Reservoir, Stanza Stones Trail, St Thomas' Church, Brown Wardle Hill.

3.3 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Booth Wood Reservoir
85 min walk • Booth Wood Reservoir is a man-made upland reservoir that lies north of the M62 motorway and south of the A672 road near to Rishworth and Ripponden in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England.
4.8 miSE
Hiking, Hiking trail
Stanza Stones Trail, Marsden
122 min walk • The Stanza Stones Trail is a 47-mile walking route from Marsden to Ilkley, along the Pennine watershed in northern England, linking six poems by Simon Armitage which have been carved into stone.
4.3 miS
Church
St Thomas' Church
110 min walk • St Thomas' Church, Friarmere, also known as Heights Chapel, is a redundant Anglican church standing on a hillside overlooking the village of Delph, Greater Manchester, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
4.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Brown Wardle Hill
125 min walk • Brown Wardle is a hill between the village of Wardle, Greater Manchester and the town of Whitworth, Lancashire, England. The summit is on the border of Greater Manchester and Lancashire and stands 400 m above sea level, making it one of the highest points in Rochdale and Greater Manchester.
3.7 miW
Gothic Revival architecture, Church
St John the Baptist's Church, Rochdale
94 min walk • St John the Baptist's Church is in Halifax Road, Smallbridge, Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is a redundant Anglican parish church in the benefice of Wardle and Smallbridge, the deanery of Rochdale, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.
2.3 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Hollingworth Lake, Rochdale
59 min walk • Hollingworth Lake is a 130-acre reservoir at Smithy Bridge in Littleborough, Greater Manchester, England. It was originally built as the main water source for the Rochdale Canal, but developed as a tourist resort from the 1860s.
4.1 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Reservoir
Watergrove Reservoir, Rochdale
104 min walk • Watergrove Reservoir is a reservoir close to Wardle in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, within Greater Manchester, England.
3.5 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Ryburn Reservoir
89 min walk • Ryburn Reservoir is a supply reservoir operated by Yorkshire Water close to Ripponden in the Yorkshire Pennines, England. It lies in the valley of the River Ryburn and is the lower of two reservoirs built in the valley to supply Wakefield with water and was completed in 1933.
4.2 miS
Forts and castles
Castleshaw Roman Fort, Ashton-under-Lyne
108 min walk • Castleshaw Roman fort was a castellum in the Roman province of Britannia. Although there is no evidence to substantiate the claim, it has been suggested that Castleshaw Roman fort is the site of Rigodunum, a Brigantian settlement.
2.1 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Piethorne Reservoir
55 min walk • Piethorne Reservoir is the largest of several reservoirs in the Piethorne Valley above Newhey, by Milnrow, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It was built between 1858 and 1868.
4.6 miE
Bridge
Scammonden Bridge
118 min walk • Scammonden Bridge, also known as Rainbow Bridge or, locally, Brown Cow Bridge, spans the Deanhead cutting carrying the B6114 Elland to Buckstones road over the M62 motorway in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England.