Crook Hill NW top

A view of the NW summit (382 m) of Crook Hill, near Ladybower in the Peak District, looking to the SE. Although not of great elevation compared with the heights all around, Crook Hill's airy rocky summits offer a lovely viewpoint of the surrounding moors and gritstone edges.

The summits are residual tors composed of Kinderscout Grit (Namurian) with a solifluction mantle of gritstone blocks all around.

The SW faces of both tors display the steepest slopes probably because material removed from the summit by freeze-thaw conditions has been steadily removed by successive phases of gelifluction and/or solifluction into the deep Ashop valley below. In contrast, on the NE slopes with an aspect facing away from most of the sun's warmth, the material has not been transported so far from its source and remains mostly piled up around the summit tors.