Bleaklow

Looking east on Bleaklow

The Bleaklow is a mountain plateau in the Peak District east of Glossop.

The Bleaklow is a for the most part covered by peat bog plateau, which has no real climax. It listed on the plateau three prominent points, which has a height of 633 m. The Bleaklow Head is located on the west side and it leads the Pennine Way, 3 km east of it are the Bleaklow Stones. The Higher Shelf Stones is located 1.5 km south of the Bleaklow Head.

The marshy level of Bleaklow is furrowed by deep washed out by rain water gutters, which are called " Groughs ". These gutters and the less structured landscape make the orientation in poor visibility very difficult, whereas in good weather the view to the mountains of Snowdonia.

The Bleaklow is the origin of the River Derwent, which flows from here first by the reservoirs of Howden Reservoir, Derwent Reservoir and Ladybower Reservoir south of the Snake Pass.

On November 3, 1948 crashed a Boeing RB -29A Superfortress of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, Strategic Air Command of the U.S. Air Force near the High Shelf Stones on a flight from Scampton to Burtonwood. In the crash, all 13 crew members were killed.

The Bleaklow Stones

The Bleaklow in bad weather

Swell

• Barry Pilton, One Man and his Bog, Corgi Books, 1986 ISBN. 0-552-12796-5.