Snowy moorland view looking west down rocky hillside to Castleshaw Reservoirs and cumulus clouds sun, Millstone Edge, Standedge, South Pennines, UK

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This gristle outcrop (Millstone Edge) is at the northern end of the Standedge escarpment between the Colne Valley in West Yorkshire and the Castleshaw Valley in Lancashire. The Pennine Way follows the escarpment. The Upper and Lower Castleshaw Reservoirs, below the rocky, gritstone hillside, were built 1887-1891 by Oldham Corporation Waterworks. The small town of Delph lie in the valley behind the reservoirs. A view looking south-west, towards Saddleworth Moors, from the Pennine Way on its journey north to the A640 Huddersfield Road, a small distance north behind the camera.

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Size: 2993px × 1992px
Location: Pennine Way at Millstone Edge, Standedge, looking west to Castleshaw Reservoirs, South Pennines, Lan
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: None

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