Axe Edge Moor

About Axe Edge Moor

Axe Edge Moor is the major moorland south-west of Buxton in the Peak District, its highest point reaching 551 metres — slightly lower than Shining Tor, some five kilometres to the north-west across the shallow dip of the nascent Goyt Valley. The moor is mainly gritstone, of Namurian shale and sandstone, and is shared between Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire, whose boundaries meet on its south-western flank at Three Shire Heads on the River Dane.

Five rivers — the Dove, Manifold, Dane, Wye and Goyt — rise on the moor, with Axe Edge itself on the south-eastern side near the source of the Dove. The moor also boasted England's second-highest pub, the Cat and Fiddle Inn, which shut in 2015 and later reopened as a distillery.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Axe Edge Moor (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for England — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in England ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 53.233, -1.949. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit

Record revised

23-Oct-23

Drop measured from

SK018709 · 468 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Reaching Axe Edge Moor by train

One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Axe Edge Moor is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Shining Tor (559 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 468 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks