Earthwatcher's photos with the keyword: Hope Valley

View WNW from the north end of Higger Tor towards Hope Valley and the Kinderscout plateau.

View westerly from the north end of Higger Tor towards Hope Valley, Mam Tor and Rushup Edge.

View westerly from the north end of Higger Tor towards Hope Valley, Mam Tor and Rushup Edge. The x2 vertical exaggeration brings out the geological and geomorphological features in the landscape.

View WNW from the north end of Higger Tor.

A view to the SSW from New Road above Bamford, Derbyshire. The geotagged location indicates the camera position, not the valley.

Originally uploaded for the Guesswhere UK group. This is a section of the old A625 Sheffield to Chapel-en-le-Frith road at the foot of Mam Tor in the Peak District. The road was built across an extensive active landslip area and was in constant need of repair. The photo shows the repetitive layers of successive repairs made to this section. The road was finally closed in 1979. The landslip first formed about 3000 years BP, on an oversteepened slope left after Devensian periglacial period. There is an 80 m high back scar in formed in the Mam Tor Beds. The toe of the landslip is still active today, moving at up to 2 metres per year in places.

Remains of the A625 road on the Mam Tor landslip, Derbyshire. This is a section of the old A625 Sheffield to Chapel-en-le-Frith road at the foot of Mam Tor in the Peak District. The road was built across an extensive active landslip area and was in constant need of repair. The photo shows the repetitive layers of successive repairs made to this section. The road was finally closed in 1979. The landslip first formed about 3000 years BP, on an oversteepened slope left after Devensian. There is an 80 m high back scar in formed in the Mam Tor Beds. The toe of the landslip is still active today, moving at up to 2 metres per year in places. Photo taken in October 1999

This is a section of the old A625 Sheffield to Chapel-en-le-Frith road at the foot of Mam Tor in the Peak District. The road was built across an extensive active landslip area and was in constant need of repair. The photo shows the repetitive layers of successive repairs made to this section. The road was finally closed in 1979. The landslip first formed about 3000 years BP, on an oversteepened slope left after Devensian. There is an 80 m high back scar in formed in the Mam Tor Beds. The the toe of the landslip is still active today, moving at up to 2 metres per year in places.

This is a section of the old A625 Sheffield to Chapel-en-le-Frith road at the foot of Mam Tor in the Peak District. The road was built across an extensive active landslip area and was in constant need of repair. It was finally closed in 1979. The landslip first formed about 3000 years BP, on an oversteepened slope left after Devensian. There is an 80 m high back scar in formed in the Mam Tor Beds. The the toe of the landslip is still active today, moving at up to 2 metres per year in places.

Castleton and the Lafarge cement works at Hope viewed from the old A625 road on the Mam Tor landslip, Derbyshire. This is a section of the old A625 Sheffield to Chapel-en-le-Frith road at the foot of Mam Tor in the Peak District. The road was built across an extensive active landslip area and was in constant need of repair. It was finally closed in 1979. The landslip first formed about 3000 years BP, on an oversteepened slope left after Devensian. There is an 80 m high back scar in formed in the Mam Tor Beds. The the toe of the landslip is still active today, moving at up to 2 metres per year in places.

View east from the top of Mam Tor in the Peak District National Park.

This is the Hope Valley in the Peak District basking in the evening sunshine, viewed from near Great Tor on Bamford Edge. Abney Moor and Shatton are on the left, with the deep cleft of Overdale in shadow. Bradwell village is in the broad valley just right of centre. On the extreme right is the Earle's Quarry at t' back o' Pindale, which supplies limestone for the Hope Lafarge cement works (mercifully just out of shot).

I'm always interested in viewing landscapes in different ways and occasionally I experiment with exaggerating the vertical scale of my photos. I'm not sure of the validity of this as a photography technique or an art-form, but I do quite like the effect it produces and quite often this enhances geological and geomorphological features, and so is useful as a teaching aid. This view is from Bamford Edge in the Peak District looking to the south west. On the left, the Namurian ('Millstone Grit') succession of Abney Moor, Shatton and Overdale contrasts with the older Dinantian (Carboniferous Limestone) landform to the right. Bradwell village nestles in the valley in between. The easterly (left) dip of the rocks is well seen, as is the stepped topography of Shatton and Abney Moor due to the presence of alternating hard sandstones and softer shales.

View in the rain and sleet from Stanage Edge towards Win Hill and the Hope Valley, late afternoon, New Year's Day 2007. See where this picture was taken. [?]