Walks from Glossop station
4 listed hills have a summit within 8 km of the platform at Glossop — the closest is Mill Hill at 4.6 km, the highest Bleaklow Head at 633 m. Distances are straight lines, not routes: this page tells you a car-free day is possible here, and the planning is still yours.
- Station code
- GLO
- Grid reference
- SK034941
- Coordinates
- 53.44447, -1.94907
- Locality
- Glossop
- Operator
- Northern Trains
- Entries & exits
- 739,966 · #686 of 2,589
- Hills in reach
- 4
Passenger figure is the ORR estimate of all entries and exits, April 2024 to March 2025 — a measure of how busy (or wonderfully quiet) the station is, not of train frequency.
About Glossop station
Glossop station serves the Peak District town of Glossop in Derbyshire and is the terminus of the Glossop line, 13 miles east of Manchester Piccadilly. It stands just north of Norfolk Square in the centre of the town, and is the third busiest station in Derbyshire after Derby and Chesterfield, with a recorded usage of 739,966 for April 2024 to March 2025.
Together with the nearby Derbyshire stations at Hadfield and Dinting, Glossop is considered part of the Greater Manchester rail network: it lies only a short distance over the county boundary and the line goes no further into Derbyshire. For that reason the station signs carry the Transport for Greater Manchester logo and the station appears on the TfGM rail network map, although Greater Manchester concessionary fares do not apply to passengers travelling from Glossop, Dinting or Hadfield.
Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Glossop railway station (CC BY-SA 4.0). Coordinates and the passenger figure come from NaPTAN and the ORR, not from Wikipedia.
The 4 hills within 8 km
Every hill from our dataset for which Glossop is one of the 3 nearest stations. Follow a name for the full record — heights, prominence, access rights, live summit weather and daylight.
| # | Hill | Height | Classifications | From station | Direction |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mill Hill | 544 m | Dewey | 4.6 km | SE |
| 2 | Higher Shelf Stones | 621.8 m | Nuttall | 5.4 km | E |
| 3 | Featherbed Top | 544 m | Dewey | 5.9 km | E |
| 4 | Bleaklow Head | 633 m | HewittNuttallHuMP+1 | 6.3 km | E |
A hill 8 km away in a straight line can be a much longer day on the ground — and on rural lines the last train home leaves early and some stations are request stops with a handful of services a day. Check live times and facilities for Glossop before you commit, plan the route on a proper map, and give the daylight planner your real finish time.
Hill data from the Database of British & Irish Hills v18.3 (CC BY 4.0). Station position from NaPTAN (Department for Transport, OGL v3.0); passenger estimates from the Office of Rail and Road (OGL v3.0). Distances and bearings computed by OpenFell, summit to platform.
Daylight here today
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- Sunset
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- Civil twilight ends
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Computed astronomically for the station. Walking to a timetable means walking to the light: set your turnaround with the daylight safety planner.
Plan the day
- Walking-time calculator — Naismith with terrain and fitness corrections.
- Access checker — what the land around here allows.
- Kit-list generator — packed for the forecast, not for habit.
- Glossop on National Rail — live departures, facilities, engineering work.
- OS Maps · Google Maps