Walk wy109 Standedge (Close Moor) from Marsden

This 8½ mile, Grade 5 (Moderate), easy-to-follow, hand-crafted walk, complete with GPS Waypoints, starts at Marsden & will take about 4½ hrs to complete.

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Vital Statistics:

Length:8½mls (13.5km)
Ascent:1,319ft (405m)
Time:4½hrs
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Route outline for walk wy109:

Marsden  -  Tunnel End  -  Hey Green  -  Close Gate Bridge  -  Stack End  -  Willkay Clough  -  Green Laitch  -  Wilmer Green Clough  -  Broad Wham  -  Haigh Gutter  -  The Pennine Way  -  Oldgate Moss  -  Haigh Gutter Moss  -  Blea Green  -  Northern Rotcher  -  Dinner Stone  -  Standedge (Close Moor)  -  Millstone Edge  -  Standedge  -  Brun Moor  -  Brun Clough Reservoir  -  Redbrook Rreservoir  -  The Standedge Trail  -  Carr Clough  -  Marsden

Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

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Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is Standedge (Close Moor) at 451m (1480ft). Standedge (Close Moor) is known as an English Bridget. The summit of Standedge (Close Moor) is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.

National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:

Part of this walk follows a section of The Pennine Way, a 404km (251 miles) linear footpath connecting Edale in Derbyshire, England with Kirk Yetholm in The Borders, Scotland. The Pennine Way is waymarked by a National Trail Acorn. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Pennine Way.


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Now men that be that love the plain, with yellow cornland dressed. And others love the sleepy vales, where lazy cattle rest. But some men love the ancient hills, and they have chosen best - William Noel Hodgeson: 1893-1916
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