Carl Wark
Carl Wark is a rocky promontory on Hathersage Moor in the Peak District National Park, just inside the boundary of Sheffield, England. The promontory is faced by vertical cliffs on all but one side, which is protected by a prehistoric embankment.Places of Interest
Highlights include Hathersage railway station and Grindleford railway station.
Hathersage railway station
Railway station
Photo: Roger Geach, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hathersage railway station serves the village of Hathersage, in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. It is a stop on the Hope Valley Line between Sheffield and Manchester Piccadilly.
Grindleford railway station
Railway station
Photo: James Haynes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grindleford railway station serves the village of Grindleford in the Derbyshire Peak District, England. It is located 1 mile away from the village centre in Nether Padley.
Higger Tor
Peak
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Higger Tor or Higgar Tor is a gritstone tor in the Dark Peak, in the north of the Peak District National Park in England. It overlooks the Burbage Valley and the Iron Age hill fort of Carl Wark to the southeast.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hathersage and Eyam.
Hathersage
Photo: DAVID M GOODWIN, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hathersage is in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Hathersage is a tourist destination because of the scenery of the Hope and Derwent valleys, its literary connections, and easy access by train or road from Sheffield and Manchester.
Eyam
Eyam is a village in the Derbyshire Dales that lies within the Peak District National Park. Eyam has many Plague-related places of interest. It is pronounced "Eem".
Dore
Suburb
Photo: Mike Fowkes, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dore is a large village in the Sheffield district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England. The village lies on a hill above the River Sheaf which gave Sheffield its name and, until 1934, was part of Derbyshire but it is now a suburb of the city.
Carl Wark
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,214 feet
- Description: promontory in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Categories: promontory, archaeological site, historic site, and landform
- Location: Grindleford, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.3292° or 53° 19′ 45″ northLongitude
-1.6119° or 1° 36′ 43″ westElevation
1,214 feet (370 metres)Open location code
9C5W89HQ+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 255173948OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q5040936
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