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Name:Blackstone Edge
Hill number:5319
Height:474m / 1555ft
Parent (Ma):2810  Black Hill
Alternative top: (Hail Storm Hill (boundary))
RHB Section:36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines
County/UA:Rochdale
Catchment:Catchment Boundaries, Aire, Mersey
Watershed:Humber Estuary, Ardnamurchan Point to Lowestoft, Cardiff to Cape Wrath, Dover to Cape Wrath, Lowestoft to Duncansby Head, Land's End to John o' Groats, Liverpool Bay, The Lizard to Dunnet Head
Class:Hump, Tump (400-499m), Current County/UA Top, Clem
(Hu,Tu,4,CoU,Cm)
Grid ref:SD 97334 16266
Summit feature:large boulder with OS benchmark 160m SE of trig point
Drop:102m
Col:372m  SD983147  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 109
(1:25k) OL21S
Observations:top of boulder is c0.4m higher than the rock tor at SD 97205 16359 known as Robin Hood's Bed
Survey:Abney level
Survey of Blackstone Edge (Final).doc
Comments:Col height marked by name plate on motorway. County Top twinned with hill 5533
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Notes:
  • Rochdale current county/UA top (joint)

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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 372 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
GuyF04/04/5319
Loop from the White House up to White Holme Reservoir first.squeegs17/03/2024
On a trail run from the mast near J22 of the M62.Wheelsy29/10/2023
Matt18/08/2023
oliversalmon03/07/2023
Up today for a lab. Been before.AvidSockWearer14/01/2023
Tom Mundell04/12/2022
nicolajane10/11/2022
solitaryfellwanderer16/10/2022
Quick blast up from the White House pub. Cracking views over Manchester/Rochdale.cjwilliams10/10/2022
With LJanet M13/09/2022
A nice evening walk with Alma Aurea on a sunny day to the trig/summit and further down the edge.meltdiceburg13/09/2022
Lindsay M13/09/2022
Here for the pillar but also ventured over to find the cut mark on the summit. TP:UK log: Lovely walk up from SD 97730 18104. Although advised on the way the path was difficult and we'd have been better off going from the pub? Needed a wee punt up to hug the trig. Thanks Aileen! Also YSM0377 Blackstone Edgethejackrustles20/07/2022
Circular from The White House pub via Green Withens ReservoirMountainTerrier25/06/2022
Short diversion off Pennine Way. Visited summit and trig.PGCE08/04/2022
littleclaret188206/03/2022
chevyfire27/01/2022
Nomad Perkins03/11/2021
Parked in the huge lay by where the Pennine way crosses the A672 and followed the national trail all the way to the summit where a minor boulder climb is required, Three and half mile in an hour and three quarters.WAYNE ROWLETT15/10/2021
From the CP by the Transmitter to the trig Point and backM6KIO20/09/2021
robmurray07/09/2021
Muzzinboots07/09/2021
David8412/08/2021
A sort of circular from the White House pub.MountainTerrier11/08/2021
Run w/Devon. Part of run loop from A672 car park south of M62.ZacField18/07/2021
daddybond15/06/2021
bondgirl15/06/2021
Craig6703/06/2021
Felltrekker30/05/2021
From Littleborough via the Roman Road. Part of a route to Greenfield via the Pennine Way (White Hill & Standedge also today, but neither appear to be summits), Pennine Bridleway & Huddersfield Canal.burwellian16/05/2021
Felltrekker07/05/2021
sglennon02/05/2021
Walk up across the moors from Oxygrain bridge.steven ruffles25/04/2021
A sunny revisit collecting some benchmarks.Dugswell223/04/2021
Felltrekker17/03/2021
aliyahnan28/02/2021
Superb place with wild and urban views but bitterly cold today. HP is on large gritstone boulder with old trig mark(?) at SE side of plateau, and trig is on NW edge, also with trig mark (?) on SW edge of trig boulder. Next time we will look for the large bed shaped depression on top of a tor on the SW side of the plateau, known as Robin Hood's Bed.Denise 01/02/2021
Approached from S over impressive bridge crossing the M62. Visited all the potential high points and the great trig pillar. Ice and a cold E wind on plateau but lunch at base of the Edge in warm sunshine.RichardM01/02/2021
part of a 10 mile circular from baitings res.bardolph24/12/2020
While bouldering up heresturuss22/12/2020
Re-visit for re-located high pointAlan Caine05/12/2020
bagging the trigpointSeanTither10/10/2020
Tribillo19/09/2020
Walk from the mast at the other side of the M62 along the PW to the os piller then on the summit which is a bolder some boggy patches along the walk With the dogsmy-list30/08/2020
Felltrekker30/07/2020
From SD 98295 14159 near Windy Hill Antenna. With CB.RWG30/07/2020
Felltrekker29/07/2020
Felltrekker14/07/2020
Circular route via Castle Hill, Windy Hill and Blackstone Edge.Eggletina20/06/2020