Black Hill
Black Hill, in the Peak District, is the highest hill in West Yorkshire, England. Its summit rises to an elevation of 582 m above sea level. It is surpassed in height by only two other major summits in the Peak District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,785 feet
- Description: hill on the boundary of Derbyshire and West Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Soldiers‘ Lump”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wessenden Head Reservoir and Black Chew Head.
Wessenden Head Reservoir
Reservoir
Wessenden Head Reservoir is the highest in a series of four reservoirs in the Wessenden Valley above the village of Marsden in West Yorkshire, at the northern end of the Peak District National Park.
Black Chew Head
Peak
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Black Chew Head in Saddleworth in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is the highest point or county top of Greater Manchester in northern England. It stands on moorland on the edge of the Peak District at a height of 542 m above sea level, close to the border with the High Peak district of Derbyshire.
Digley Reservoir
Reservoir
Digley Reservoir is a reservoir located downstream of Bilberry Reservoir, 2 miles south west of Holmfirth, in West Yorkshire, England. The reservoir was planned during the 1930s, with much land being bought for its construction, but it was not completed until 1954.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Holme and Austonley.
Holme
Village
Photo: Richard Harvey, CC BY 2.5.
Holme is a village in the Holme Valley civil parish of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. The village straddles the A6024 road between Holmbridge and Lane village, 2.5 miles south-west of Holmfirth.
Austonley
Hamlet
Austonley is a hamlet in the civil parish of Holme Valley, in the Kirklees district, in West Yorkshire, England, about 2 miles west of Holmfirth.
Holmbridge
Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holmbridge is a small village on the A6024 to the southwest of Holmfirth and south of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England. It is in the parish of Holme Valley and the metropolitan borough of Kirklees.
Black Hill
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Holme Valley, Kirklees, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.53877° or 53° 32′ 20″ northLongitude
-1.88353° or 1° 53′ 1″ westElevation
1,785 feet (544 metres)Open location code
9C5WG4Q8+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 266946605OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Black Hill” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Black Hill”
- Dutch: “Black Hill”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بلاك هيل (المملكه المتحده)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بلاك هيل”
- French: “Black Hill”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Black Hill i Peak District”
- Swedish: “Black Hill”
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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 “Black Hill”. Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.