Colshaw

Colshaw is a hamlet in Hollinsclough, Staffordshire Moorlands, England. Colshaw is situated nearby to the locality Flash Bar, as well as near the village Hollinsclough.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Oliver Hill and Axe Edge Moor.

Oliver Hill

Peak

Photo: Roger Brooks, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Oliver Hill is a hill, 513 metres high, in the Peak District in the county of Staffordshire in England. It is a treeless summit surrounded by farmland in the southern part of the Peak District about 6 kilometres south-southwest of the town of Buxton.

Axe Edge Moor

Peak

Photo: Dave Dunford, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Axe Edge Moor is the major moorland southwest of Buxton in the Peak District, England. It is mainly gritstone. Its highest point is at grid reference SK035706. Axe Edge Moor is situated 2 miles north of Colshaw.

Chrome Hill

Peak

Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chrome Hill is a limestone reef knoll in Derbyshire, England, in the upper Dove valley beside the border with Staffordshire, within the civil parish of Hartington Middle Quarter. Chrome Hill is situated 1½ miles east of Colshaw.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flash and Hollinsclough.

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.

Hollinsclough

Village

Photo: Geoff Pick, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hollinsclough is a small rural village in the Staffordshire Moorlands district in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is within the Peak District National Park.

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. Three Shire Heads is situated 2 miles west of Colshaw.

Colshaw

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Hollinsclough, Staffordshire Moorlands, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.20603° or 53° 12′ 22″ north

Longitude

-1.93669° or 1° 56′ 12″ west

Elevation

1,453 feet (443 metres)

Open location code

9C5W6347+C8

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1468237706

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13275010

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