Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog
Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog is a memorial in Hope Woodlands, High Peak District, England. Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog is situated nearby to Derwent Dam, as well as near the forest Hancock Wood.Photo: Ken Bagnall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Memorial
- Description: Commemoration stone at Derwent Dams, UK
- Also known as: “Tip the Faithful Sheepdog”, “Tip The Sheepdog Memorial”, and “Tip’s Memorial”
- Inscription: “In commemoration of the devotion of Tip. The sheepdog which stayed by the body of her dead master Mr. Joseph Tagg on the Howden Moors for fifteen weeks from 12th December 1953 to 27th March 1954.”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Derwent Dam and Lost Lad.
Derwent Dam
Dam
Photo: michael ely, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Derwent Dam is situated 670 feet east of Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog.
Lost Lad
Peak
Photo: George Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lost Lad is a hill, 518 metres high on the Derwent Edge in the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England. It is a subpeak of Back Tor. Lost Lad is situated 1½ miles northeast of Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog.
Derwent Edge
Peak
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Derwent Edge is a Millstone Grit escarpment that lies above the Upper Derwent Valley in the Peak District National Park in the English county of Derbyshire. Derwent Edge is situated 1½ miles east of Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alport Castles and Ashopton.
Alport Castles
Locality
The Alport Castles are a landslip feature in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire. At over half a mile long, it is thought to be the largest landslide in the United Kingdom. Alport Castles is situated 2 miles northwest of Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog.
Ashopton
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ashopton was a small village in Derbyshire, England, in the valley of the River Ashop. The village population was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Aston, Derbyshire. Ashopton is situated 2½ miles southeast of Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog.
High Stones
Locality
High Stones, at 548 metres, is the highest point within the boundaries of both the City of Sheffield and South Yorkshire, England. High Stones lies on the Howden Moors towards in the northern Peak District National Park, between Langsett Reservoir to the north-east and Howden Reservoir to the south-west. High Stones is situated 3 miles north of Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog.
Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog
- Category: historic site
- Location: Hope Woodlands, High Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.40534° or 53° 24′ 19″ northLongitude
-1.74477° or 1° 44′ 41″ westOpen location code
9C5WC744+43OpenStreetMap ID
node 659325471OpenStreetMap feature
historic=memorialWikidata ID
Q119788983
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