Bamford Moor and Win Hill

Late afternoon sun and cloudscape over Bamford Moor, looking westwards. The patterned moorland is a result of periodic burning off of the heather. The prominent small summit ridge is Win Hill; the Kinder Scout plateau is in the far distance.

Taken from the ascent to High Neb on Stanage Edge from Dennis Knoll.

Stanage Edge is comprised of Rivelin Grit (aka Chatsworth Grit), Namurian age, Upper Carboniferous. The coarse-grained gritstone was deposited in a series of delta distributary channels. The gritstone is normally strongly cross-bedded.

Bamford Moor, Win Hill and the Kinderscout plateau are composed of the older Kinderscout Grit, stratigraphically beneath the Rivelin Grit.