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Stanage Edge

Description: Stanage / English Peak District / South Yorkshire / Derbyshire / Attractions: High Neb,

Newest Review: ... not really qualified to comment. 2. The community (aka crowds). This is related to point 1, and again both a good and a bad thing. You are never alone at Stanage, certainly not if you visit the more popular southern end. On the plus side, if you walk the top, you will almost certainly meet someone to pass the time of day with, from serious walkers to families on an afternoon out. If you are ... more

... climbing there, you will almost certainly be surrounded by others more familiar with the crag than you are, and (in my case anyway) much better climbers than yourself, doing routes that you would need brown Teflon pants for. 3. The view. This is spect...more

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Stanage Edge: Who the Hell Left That There? (1742 words)
by - written on 07/09/07 (Very useful, 264 readings)
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You have no danger of not being able to find Stanage Edge. I actually laughed the first time that I got out of the car at the absurdity of worrying that we might somehow “miss it”. Stanage is the most northern of the “eastern edges” in Derbyshire, a series of dark millstone cliffs that run across the moors in a roughly north-south line. It’s not the tallest of the group, but boy, it sure is the biggest, running for approximately four miles. Standing in an exposed, high spot, the Edge is visible for miles around, a dark, faintly foreboding omnipresence on the horizon. Stanage lies immediately west of Sheffield, and overlooks the small town of Hathersage to the ... Read the complete review