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| Name: | Robin Hood's Picking Rods |
| Hill number: | 5545 |
| Height: | 327m / 1073ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 2807 Kinder Scout |
| Alternative top: | (Mellor Moor) |
| RHB Section: | 36: Lancashire, Cheshire & the Southern Pennines |
| Nuttall/Wainwright area: | The Peak District |
| County/UA: | Derbyshire, Stockport |
| Catchment: | Mersey |
| Class: | Current County/UA twin-Top (CoU=) |
| Grid ref: | SK 00609 90944 |
| Summit feature: | curious man-made stone object |
| Drop: | 0m |
| Col: | 327m SK006909  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 110 (1:25k) OL1W |
| Observations: | this lies on boundary at 325m - 330m |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 142 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| LDWA Social Walk | kindpercy | 13/01/2024 |
| From parking area to west, along Pennine Bridleway to the Picking Rods. Skylarks in fine voice & a goodly number of lapwing. | gerrybowes | 18/05/2023 |
| Parked at SK 01926 92393. Then a circular walking taking in Cown Edge, Robin Hood's Picking Rods, and Matley Moor [Knarrs]; around 6.5 miles. | justin_j_evans | 22/04/2023 |
| From Cown Edge. Along escarpment, then along field edge to join good track between fence and wall that heads west past the Picking Rods. | KeithByTheC | 06/01/2023 |
| While doing the Peak 200 on bike over 4 days. | steveb2006 | 15/06/2022 |
| Circular walk from Broadbottom. | HillyBuckles | 12/10/2021 |
| See Kamoot entry for full details/gpx download: https://www.komoot.com/tour/384343688 | outlawcatcher | 04/06/2021 |
| As others: parked on Gun Road and walked along ROW. On to Mellor Moor. | PGCE | 19/02/2021 |
| Parking area on Gun road where the ROW leads straight to the summit, Thirty minutes tops for just under a mile and half. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 05/07/2020 |
| Interesting stones. | Bag For Life | 20/06/2020 |
| Warm, humid, breezy, sunshine and cloud. From west with Bag For Life. | Wycombe Wanderer | 20/06/2020 |
| The Go-ahead surprisingly has now been given in England only during Covid 19 restrictions to drive as far as you want for your exercise, but we still chose to walk from the door in Bredbury - more eco-friendly and satisfying for a 7 hr dog walk with L and the spaniels heading for Cown Edge. As on my first visit 5 years ago I oddly found myself munching a sandwich 'on the go' on the walk to the rods -2 stone pillars set in circular holes in a boulder. Nice to be heading for the empty windswept hills again. | Chris Pearson | 15/05/2020 |
| From Car parking on Monks Road (Coombes Edge)- head down - The Banks - Charlesworth - The Works - Moorside - Robin Hoods Picking Rods - return along Cown Edge. | briandavies | 26/04/2020 |
| Beautifully quiet | SB1066 | 19/04/2020 |
| With Cown Edge from Monk’s Road. Glorious day. | victimofmathema | 20/04/2019 |
| 17,2 miles, 2638ft Pennine Bridleway and Cown Edge Way walk. | stephenbuda | 10/10/2018 |
| Parked on verge on Gun road , FP up to the ‘picking rods’ | PeterD | 06/10/2018 |
| With E. From Rowarth. | Beeliner | 08/08/2018 |
| Nice easy walk, after parking the car on Gun Rd, lots of room on the verge. Good to have a feature, supprisingly good views N-E-S. | Walkingthedog | 21/06/2018 |
| Parked on monor road then easy, almost flat walk along a track. Interesting birds - lapwings, golden plovers and, I think, curlew. | clivevilla | 15/05/2018 |
| Supervising DofE | JK | 13/05/2018 |
| Lantern Pike, Matley Moor, Cown Edge and Robin Hood's Picking Rods. From Rowarth car park. | BobHancock | 13/03/2018 |
| Roadside verge parking to W. Muddy path. | jonglew | 23/01/2018 |
| Had to park in almost 9 inches of water due to earlier torrential rain. Blocked the gate only for a muck spreading farmer to arrive. Luckily we hadn't set off. He was a pleasant jolly man. Moved the car and took the muddy track up to the Picking Rods. Great views north and west. | Campbell Singer | 26/11/2017 |
| Parked at edge of flooded road, and up muddy track. Heck knows what a picking rod is, but just about worth the walk. | Minto | 04/11/2017 |
| alan | Glenford | 04/11/2017 |
| 4 of 4 today lantern pike, Matley moor, cown edge, robin hoods picking rods | The-Z-Man | 31/10/2017 |
| An interesting artefact. I'm not sure why it is listed as a hill though but it was a lovely autumnal evening. | thenomad | 30/10/2017 |
| Solo. Went out of curiosity for what it was more than Peak Bagging but since I have been there I will tick it as done. | Aimless Rambler | 23/09/2017 |
| With Suzie and Lucky, did a circular walk from Gun Road. | John Eley | 16/07/2017 |
| Plenty of verge parking to West SJ 99856 90906. Straight forward route which took about 25 minutes. Just realized, Stockport completed. | David Evans | 16/04/2017 |
| With Jo, circular walk from Rowarth mainly on rights of way and by-roads: Robin Hood's Picking Rods, Cown Edge, Matley Moor (Knarrs), Lantern Pike (and nearby trig). Weather; mixed day of sunshine and showers, cool breeze with good visibility. | amblerbob | 09/08/2016 |
| With Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 14/07/2016 |
| From road to east (easy parking) along Penine B/way to Robin Hoods PR then back and along Cown Edge way to Cown Edge summit. | mart0797 | 01/05/2016 |
| 10/12 Long but pleasant day Tenth of twelve (Wold Newton/Normandby Top/Saxby Wold/South Field/Great Wold/Wooley Edge/West Nab/Idle Hill/Cown Edge/Robin Hoods Picking Rods/Mellor Moor/Eccles Pike) | Fergalh | 23/01/2016 |
| With G. From Glossop > Whitfield > Gnat Hole > Chunal > Matley Moor (Knarrs) > Robin Hood's Picking Rods > Cown Edge > Glossop via Hobroyd Fm. | RT1970 | 28/12/2015 |
| 2nd hill of four today starting from Hayfield on linear traverse to Glossop, climbing Matley Moor (Knarrs) back onto Pennine Bridleway and then simply following past West until meeting these curious stone objects. Had to negotiate around several black cows but they were fortunately quite benign. Lovely autumnal weather. Re-traced steps to take Cown Edge way en-route to Cown Hill. | Dazingdale | 19/10/2015 |
| Solo. Parked at 998909. A short 20 minute walk to this unusual 'top'. Great views of North Cheshire. | bolton | 07/10/2015 |
| Walked up Cown Edge way from Gun Road on the way to Cown Edge. Glorious sunny day. Great views of the high peaks. | W111KYB | 27/09/2015 |
| Walked up from gun road, through cow field. The sun was just starting to burn through the early morning mist. | mcallmar | 27/09/2015 |
| From W, by moonlight, after Cowlow, Fri eve on the way north. An Adam and Eve leap between the two pillars seems called for - maybe in daylight. | RHW | 25/09/2015 |
| Steady walk to the Rods whilst eating a sandwich then a sprint back to the car risking indigestion as heavy rain began appropriately to 'rod it down'. I can find no explanation on the web of these 'mysterious' man made pillars. There is however, should you be a big fan, a whole web site listing every Robin Hood named place in Britain. | Chris Pearson | 06/08/2015 |
| Glossop to Broadbottom over Cown Edge and Robin Hood's Picking Rods. Glorious walking in the sunshine. | Jake994 | 05/07/2015 |
| On Lantern Pike circuit. Very strange indeed to see these just standing there through an open farm gate | Mypoorblisters | 21/06/2015 |
| Peak bagging after work - Robin Hood's Picking Rods, Cown Edge and Knarrs. Sadly ran out of daylight after that! | the_adam | 20/03/2015 |
| Straight up and down on the bridleway from Gun Road, walked Mellor Moor the same day. | Lazylizzie | 30/11/2014 |
| Easy to find short walk along bridleway from road cows in field funny shaped stone structure at top . | Haygalzer | 16/08/2014 |
| Realised been here before on the Pennine Bridleway. Was harassed by a Lapwing. | simon and co | 05/06/2014 |
| Parked on verge. Walk up track. Very strange objects. 13.10 | arranc | 25/05/2014 |
| Sunny solo walk from Broadbottom, via Charlesworth and Cown Edge bronze age cairn. The rods are very odd, appearing to have cupmarks on the sides. From here off to see Brown Low and Ludworth Intakes cairns, lovely walk back to Broadbottom. | thesweetcheat | 19/04/2014 |