Whetstone Ridge

Whetstone Ridge is a peak in Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, Cheshire East, England and has an elevation of 1,795 feet. Whetstone Ridge is situated nearby to the locality Dingers Hollow Farm, as well as near Three Shire Heads.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cat and Fiddle Inn and Danebower Colliery ventilation chimney, 750m north east of Holt.

Cat and Fiddle Inn

Distillery

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.

The Cat and Fiddle Inn is a former public house in the English Peak District, in Cheshire, close to the border with Derbyshire. It sits on the A537 road from Macclesfield to Buxton, which runs across a high and remote area of moorland.

Danebower Colliery ventilation chimney, 750m north east of Holt

Monument

Photo: Alan Murray-Rust, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Danebower Colliery ventilation chimney, 750m north east of Holt is a monument.

Shutlingsloe

Peak

Photo: Ian Warburton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Three Shire Heads and Wildboarclough.

Three Shire Heads

Locality

Three Shire Heads is the tripoint on Axe Edge Moor where Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire meet, at UK grid reference SK009685, or. It is on the River Dane, which marks the Cheshire border in this area.

Wildboarclough

Hamlet

Photo: Pete Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wildboarclough is a village in the Macclesfield Forest, in the civil parish of Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, in the Cheshire East district of Cheshire, England, within the Peak District National Park.

Flash

Village

Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.

Flash is a village in the Staffordshire Moorlands and the Peak District National Park, England. At 1,519 feet above sea level, it is the highest village in the United Kingdom. Flash was an early centre for Wesleyanism.

Whetstone Ridge

Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,795 feet
Category: landform
Location: Macclesfield Forest and Wildboarclough, Cheshire East, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.23491° or 53° 14′ 6″ north

Longitude

-1.99855° or 1° 59′ 55″ west

Elevation

1,795 feet (547 metres)

Open location code

9C5W62M2+XH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2819461314

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12618641

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