Higger Tor
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,391 feet
- Description: tor in South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Higgar Tor”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carl Wark and Hathersage railway station.
Carl Wark
Peak
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.
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.
St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Hathersage
Church
Photo: SMJ, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Hathersage, is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Hathersage, Derbyshire.
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".
Fulwood
Suburb
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fulwood is a residential suburb and ward of the City of Sheffield in England, it lies 5.5 km west-southwest of the city centre. Formerly an ancient settlement and village on the Porter Brook, it became integrated into the city in the 1930s.
Higger Tor
- Categories: tor and landform
- Location: Outseats, Derbyshire Dales District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.3339° or 53° 20′ 2″ northLongitude
-1.6154° or 1° 36′ 56″ westElevation
1,391 feet (424 metres)Open location code
9C5W89MM+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 255173953OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q5754246
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Satellite Map
Discover Higger Tor from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Dutch to Hausa—“Higger Tor” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Higger Tor”
- Hausa: “Yankin Higger Tor”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hathersage Booths and Lawrencefield.
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