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Place Name	Bleaklow
Place Type	Natural/Geological Feature
Parish	Charlesworth
Grid Ref	SK0996
Hundred	Europe
County	Derbyshire
Country	United Kingdom, England
Notes	An extensive upland moorland plateau in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park, situated north of Kinder Scout. It is characterised by blanket peat, gritstone and deeply eroded peat groughs. Its highest point, Bleaklow Head, reaches 633 metres and is crossed by the Pennine Way. Much of the moor forms part of the National Trust’s High Peak Estate and has been the subject of extensive peatland conservation and restoration.

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