Shutlingsloe

About Shutlingsloe

Shutlingsloe is a 506-metre hill in Cheshire East, close to the village of Wildboarclough at the edge of the Peak District. It stands south of Macclesfield Forest, inside the National Park boundary, and its steep sides and distinctive profile have earned it the description 'the Matterhorn of Cheshire'. Only two peaks in the historic county of Cheshire are higher, Shining Tor being the highest of all.

The hill commands excellent views over Cheshire, and its summit is crossed by the Peak District Boundary Walk — the highest point reached anywhere on that footpath's 200-mile route.

The name derives from the Old English Scyttel's hlaw, 'Scyttel's hill', built on a personal name. Several other Peak District hills carry names from the same 'low' element, an Old English root that also produced the 'Law' borne by many hills in southern Scotland.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Shutlingsloe (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 53.223, -2.037. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is rock with plaque. 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

28-Mar-10

Drop measured from

SJ976716 · 373 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.

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

Shutlingsloe 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, 373 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