Climbing & bouldering crags · East Midlands
Stanage Edge
Britain's biggest climbing crag — four miles of Peak District gritstone.
Neil Theasby — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Stanage Edge in the Peak District is the largest single climbing crag in Britain — a four-mile gritstone escarpment east of Hathersage with over 1,000 named routes. The popularity of Stanage shaped the British trad-climbing scene; the Plantation, the Popular End, and the iconic Robin Hood's Cave. Also a setting in the 2005 Pride and Prejudice film.
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From the Wikipedia article
Stanage Edge, or simply Stanage (from "stone edge") is a gritstone escarpment in the Peak District, England, famous as a location for climbing. It lies a couple of miles to the north of Hathersage, and the northern part of the edge forms the border between the High Peak of Derbyshire and Sheffield in South Yorkshire. Its highest point is High Neb at 458 metres (1,503 ft) above sea level. Areas of Stanage were quarried in the past to produce grindstones, and some can still be seen on the hillside—carved, but never removed.
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Background
Description
A paved packhorse road ran along the top of the edge, and remains of it can be seen, as can remains of the Long Causeway, once thought to be a Roman road which works its way over the edge on its route from Templeborough to Brough-on-Noe, crossing Hallam Moor and passing Stanedge Pole (note the slightly different spelling), an ancient waymarker on the route to Sheffield. Some cairns along the top are even older, and there is a well-known cave in the cliff known as Robin Hood's Cave. More recent features include early 20th-century drinking basins, designed to collect pure rainwater for grouse to drink. During the construction of the Rivelin tunnel a sighting tower was constructed on the edge…
Visiting
The location has featured in films and television series, most notably in the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice during a scene in which Elizabeth Bennet (portrayed by Keira Knightley) is seen facing the horizon from the Edge.
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 53.3500, -1.6333
- County
- Derbyshire
- District
- Derbyshire Dales
- Parish
- Hathersage
- Postcode
- S32 1DY
- Parliamentary constituency
- Derbyshire Dales
Sources
- manual: stanage-edge (manual)
- wikipedia: Stanage Edge (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Stanage Edge?
- Stanage Edge is in Derbyshire, the East Midlands, United Kingdom (postcode S32 1DY), in the parish of Hathersage.
- When was Stanage Edge built?
- Dates from the modern period.
- How do I get to Stanage Edge?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode S32 1DY. It sits within the Derbyshire Dales parliamentary constituency.