Shining Tor

About Shining Tor

Shining Tor is the highest hill in Cheshire, reaching 559 metres in the Peak District between Macclesfield in Cheshire and Buxton in Derbyshire. The summit sits on the administrative boundary between Cheshire East and Derbyshire, at the southern end of a north–south moorland ridge that also takes in the 519-metre Cats Tor.

The name is not unique: another hill called Shining Tor stands above Dovedale in Derbyshire.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Shining Tor (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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Daylight

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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 53.261, -2.009. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is no feature: 7m NNE of trig point. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

31-Oct-22

Drop measured from

SK 0802 7818 · 323.3 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 Shining Tor 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.

The Shining Tor group

9 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Shining Tor as the independent hill at its head.

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