Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: Millstone Edge

A wet and blustery day, with rain and low clouds driven on a strong westerly wind, scudding over the gritstone edges at the eastern side of the Peak District National Park. The prominent escarpment edge in the centre is Millstone Edge, comprised of the Chatsworth Grit (Namurian age), partly quarried in the past for millstones and grindstones, hence its name. Now popular with climbers. The rocky tor on the left is Over Owler Tor. Not really a day to be out and about on the moors. I took this from the shelter of my car!

Eyam Moor is a good location to view the gritstone edges to the east of the Derwent Valley - from High Neb on Stanage Edge in the north down to Baslow Edge in the south. All the main edges visible in this photo are comprised of a single gritstone unit - the Chatsworth Grit (a.k.a Rivelin Grit) in the 'Millstone Grit' group (Namurian). Faulting has fractured the gritstone into discrete 'slabs' each with it's own elevation and dip direction. This accounts for the different sections of the edges - e.g. Higger Tor, Millstone Edge, Burbage Edge, etc. This photo is comprised of 10 portrait-style photos joined together using Canon's 'Photostitch software, with some subsequent Photoshop cloning of the sky portion of the photo in order to give sufficient sky coverage along the length of the panorama.

Eyam Moor is a good location to view the gritstone edges to the east of the Derwent Valley - from High Neb on Stanage Edge in the north down to Baslow Edge in the south. All the main edges visible in this photo are comprised of a single gritstone unit - the Chatsworth Grit (a.k.a Rivelin Grit) in the 'Millstone Grit' group (Namurian). Faulting has fractured the gritstone into discrete 'slabs' each with it's own elevation and dip direction. This accounts for the different sections of the edges - e.g. Higger Tor, Millstone Edge, Burbage Edge, etc. This photo is comprised of 10 portrait-style photos joined together using Canon's 'Photostitch software, with some subsequent Photoshop cloning of the sky portion of the photo in order to give sufficient sky coverage along the length of the panorama. The vertical scale has been exaggerated x 2 in order to bring out the various faulted sections of the gritstone edges. The visible features L-R are: Higger Tor, Millstone Edge (part-quarried), Millstone Edge (eastern part - upfaulted, with the gritstone tors of Over Owler Tor and Mother Cap Stone) and Burbage Edge, southern part.

A view of Millstone Edge from the Sir William Hill road just above Grindleford village in the Peak District. In the shade, the rocks and trees gave rise to a sepia-like feel to the landscape, contrasting with the snowy fields. I liked the delicate transparency of the bare winter trees. In the summer time it looks like this: www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023400

A zoomed-in view of a sunlit Millstone Edge, taken from Eyam Moor in the Peak District.

Just to give a contrast to the preceding photos... Here's a view of Millstone Edge from the Sir William Hill road at the same location as this photo: www.ipernity.com/doc/earthwatcher/39023408