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Blackstone Edge (/ ˈ b l æ k s t ə n / BLAK-stən) is a gritstone escarpment at 472 metres (1,549 ft) above sea level in the Pennine hills surrounded by moorland on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire in England.
Blackstone Edge Reservoir was created in 1798 by William Jessop and the Rochdale Canal Company to supply the Rochdale Canal, which could not be supplied by rivers or streams. The reservoir was planned to be around 20 hectares. [2] This reservoir could hold over 28 million cubic feet of water. [3]
Blackstone Edge, a gritstone escarpment on the Pennine Way, above Rochdale. Bosley Cloud, also known as The Cloud, is a partially quarried gritstone outcrop on the Derbyshire–Staffordshire border; Brassington Rocks, an outcrop of dolomitic limestone near Wirksworth, Derbyshire. Castle Naze, a gritstone outcrop on Combs Moss, near Combs ...
The Rochdale Way is a circular 45-mile (72 km) walking route around the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, which takes in the best scenery and interesting buildings of the area.
Morridge Formation (including Blackstone Edge and Lum Edge sandstones) The Roaches Grit gives rise to The Roaches, Hen Cloud and Ramshaw Rocks together with outcrops at Flash and along Axe Edge, the southern end of which is just within the county.
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A turnpike known as the Mytholmroyd Bridge & Blackstone Edge Turnpike, and also as the Cragg Vale Turnpike [7] was established in 1815: "... to open a better and more easy communication than there is at present between the very populous and manufacturing town or villages of Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Mytholmroyd and other places in the ...
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