Blackstone Edge
Blackstone Edge is a gritstone escarpment at 472 metres above sea level in the Pennine hills surrounded by moorland on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire in England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blackstone Edge Reservoir and Littleborough railway station.
Blackstone Edge Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Neil T, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blackstone Edge Reservoir is a reservoir in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is close to Blackstone Edge, from which it takes its name, and the border with Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
Littleborough railway station
Railway station
Photo: Ian Roberts, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littleborough railway station serves the town of Littleborough in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It lies on the Calder Valley line 13¾ miles north of Manchester Victoria towards Halifax, Bradford Interchange and Leeds.
Whittaker Wood
Forest
Whittaker Wood is a woodland in Greater Manchester, England, near Littleborough. It covers a total area of 1.88 hectares. It is owned and managed by the Woodland Trust.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Littleborough and Smithy Bridge.
Littleborough
Town
Photo: Kram4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester in the North West of England. Its Victorian era town hall is widely recognized as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country.
Smithy Bridge
Village
Photo: Paul Anderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smithy Bridge is a suburb of Littleborough in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. Hollingworth Lake Country Park is close by.
Wardle
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wardle is a village near Littleborough within the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies amongst the foothills of the South Pennines, 1.8 miles east-southeast of Whitworth, 2.5 miles north-northwest of Rochdale and 12 miles north-northeast of the city of Manchester.
Blackstone Edge
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,555 feet
- Description: escarpment on the boundary of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, in England, UK
- Categories: escarpment and landform
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.64376° or 53° 38′ 38″ northLongitude
-2.04366° or 2° 2′ 37″ westElevation
1,555 feet (474 metres)Open location code
9C5VJXV4+GGOpenStreetMap ID
node 29884402OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Blackstone Edge” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Blackstone Edge”
- Dutch: “Blackstone Edge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Blackstone Edge”
- Swedish: “Blackstone Edge”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Blackstone Edge”. Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.