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.

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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

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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-under-Lyne, Stalybridge and Dukinfield Waterworks Joint Committee commenced in 1870.

Rhodeswood Reservoir

Reservoir

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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

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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

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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
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Latitude

53.5072° or 53° 30′ 26″ north

Longitude

-1.93144° or 1° 55′ 53″ west

Elevation

1,775 feet (541 metres)

Open location code

9C5WG349+VC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 948898938

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=survey_point

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12624606

Wikidata ID

Q23042060

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Dutch: “Featherbed Moss”

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