Hancock Wood

Hancock Wood is a forest in Hope Woodlands, High Peak District, England. Hancock Wood is situated nearby to the locality Walker’s Clough, as well as near Ashton Clough.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lost Lad and Derwent Edge.

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.

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.

Memorial to Tip the Faithful Sheepdog

Memorial

Photo: Ken Bagnall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ashopton and High Stones.

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.

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.

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.

Hancock Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Hope Woodlands, High Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.4075° or 53° 24′ 27″ north

Longitude

-1.7375° or 1° 44′ 15″ west

Open location code

9C5WC756+2X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 266454778

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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