Shining Tor
559 m in Cheshire East and Derbyshire. Its summit pillar is Shining Tor, station SK08/6.
- Height
- 559 m
- Drop
- 236 m
- Position
- 53.26073, -2.00947
- DoBIH number
- 2812
The hill
1366th of 2,342 by height.
559 m, with 236 m of drop — 726th most prominent of the 2,342 hills on a list here. It rises further above its surroundings than its height alone suggests — a hill that stands on its own rather than a high point on a longer ridge. Classed as Marilyn, HuMP, current county top and administrative county top.
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Summit pillar
Shining Tor stands here.
Station SK08/6 stands 7 m from the recorded summit, at 559 m. Ordnance Survey last recorded work on it in October 1978.
Shining TorAlso on
3 lists.
Nearby
Seventeen pillars within ten kilometres.
- Shining TorSK08/6 · standing · 559 mOn the summit
- Burbage EdgeSK08/T4 · standing · 500 m3.5 km
- ShutlingsloeSK08/7 · standing · 506 m4.5 km
- Axe EdgeSK08/1 · standing · 552 m5.1 km
- Kerridge HillSK08/T13 · standing · 314 m5.7 km
- Corbar HillSK08/T6 · standing · 437 m5.7 km
The six nearest are listed.