Featherbed Moss
Featherbed Moss is a flat-topped hill, 541 metres high, in the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England. It is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a joint county top.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Dave Dunford, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Black Chew Head and Chew Reservoir.
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.
Chew Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Robmiles79, Public domain.
Chew Reservoir is a reservoir at the head of the Chew Valley in the Peak District National Park in Greater Manchester, England. The reservoir scheme in the Greenfield and Chew Valleys by the Ashton Stalybridge and Dukinfield Waterworks Joint Committee commenced in 1870.
Rhodeswood Reservoir
Reservoir
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rhodeswood Reservoir is a man-made lake in Longdendale in north Derbyshire, England. It was constructed by John Frederick Bateman between 1849 and June 1855 as part of the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs to supply water from the River Etherow to the urban areas of Greater Manchester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crowden-in-Longdendale and Tintwistle.
Crowden-in-Longdendale
Photo: John Fielding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crowden-in-Longdendale is a small and isolated village in the upland valley of Longdendale in Derbyshire. Crowden's main interest to travellers is as the traditional first-night stop on the northbound Pennine Way.
Tintwistle
Village
Tintwistle is a village and civil parish in the High Peak district of Derbyshire, England, which had a population of 1,400 at the 2011 census. The village is just north of Glossop at the lower end of Longdendale Valley.
Saddleworth Moor
Locality
Photo: Parrot of Doom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saddleworth Moor is a moorland in North West England. Reaching more than 1,312 feet above sea level, it is in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park. It is crossed by the A635 road and the Pennine Way passes to its eastern side.
Featherbed Moss
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,775 feet
- Description: hill in Derbyshire, England, UK
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Saddleworth, Oldham, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.5072° or 53° 30′ 26″ northLongitude
-1.93144° or 1° 55′ 53″ westElevation
1,775 feet (541 metres)Open location code
9C5WG349+VCOpenStreetMap ID
node 948898938OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_pointOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakGeoNames ID
12624606Wikidata ID
Q23042060
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In Other Languages
“Featherbed Moss” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Featherbed Moss”
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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 “Featherbed Moss”. Photo: Dave Dunford, CC BY-SA 2.0.