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Bleaklow Head
The boggy "summit" of Bleaklow
Highest point
Elevation633 m (2,077 ft)[1]
Prominence128 m[1]
Parent peakKinder Scout
ListingHewitt, Nuttall, HuMP
Coordinates53°27′36″N 1°51′45″W / 53.4600°N 1.8626°W / 53.4600; -1.8626
Geography
Bleaklow Head is located in the Peak District
Bleaklow Head
Bleaklow Head
Location in the Peak District
Bleaklow Head is located in Derbyshire
Bleaklow Head
Bleaklow Head
Location in Derbyshire
LocationDerbyshire, England, UK
Parent rangePeak District
OS gridSK094960
Topo mapOS Landranger 110
Listed summits of Bleaklow
Name Grid ref Height Status
Higher Shelf Stones SK089948 621 m Nuttall
Bleaklow Stones SK116964 628 m

Bleaklow is a high, largely peat-covered, gritstone moorland in the Derbyshire High Peak near the town of Glossop. It is north of Kinder Scout, across the Snake Pass (A57), and south of the A628 Woodhead Pass. Much of it is nearly 2,000 feet (610 m) above sea level and the shallow bowl of Swains Greave on its eastern side is the source of the River Derwent.

Bleaklow Head (633 m), marked by a huge cairn of stones, the high point at the western side of the moor, is a Hewitt and is crossed by the Pennine Way. It is one of three summits on this plateau above 2,000 feet, the others being Bleaklow Stones, some 1.9 miles (3.1 km) to the east along an indefinite ridge, and Higher Shelf Stones, 0.9 miles (1.4 km) south of Bleaklow Head. At 633 metres (2,077 feet), Bleaklow is the second-highest point in Derbyshire and the area includes the most easterly point in the British Isles over 2,000 feet, near Bleaklow Stones.

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Ooh, it's really early this Sunday morning And today I'm in the National Trust's High Peak Estate And I'm going to climbing up Bleaklow which is just ahead of me I've just parked on the A57 Snake Pass and I'm just following the Pennine Way Which I've done so many times up to Bleaklow It's been a few weeks since I've been out walking, really So we'll see what it's like underfoot It seems to be pretty dry, we had a nice day yesterday So I'm hoping when it starts heading up into more midmorning it's going to brighten up for us So if you're wondering where this is, this is between Sheffield and Glossop on the A57, the Snake Pass It's called the Snake not because it's so winding, which it is It's after a coat of arms which had snakes on them, so Snake Pass As you can see the peat tends to make channels for itself so when you get down into these dips you can't really see much of anything There'll be some better examples further up the hill They're called groughs and from a navigational point-of-view it's terrible And Bleaklow on top is just full of groughs so if you get up there and it's bad weather now it's this completely, you know, flat plateau just covered in all these groughs you just often can't tell where you are That's why it can be such a challenge to navigate sometimes Now I've risen out again I can just start to see Higher Shelf Stones again Whereas the top of Bleaklow is way up there We won't be able to really see the summit until we're on it because it's so flat There's no point to head to I just quite enjoy being out in all this dark peat Right now I'm in the Peak District National Park and it's generally split up into two different areas The White Peak which is all really limestone to the south And the Dark Peak, which is this area and it's got this moorland and dark peat It's got features like Black Hill and Bleaklow and Kinder Scout in it Okay I've dipped down into the groughs again you see how sandy it is under my feet it's kind of strange See all these layers and layers of peat Taken a long long time to build up See how easy it is to get lost already it's all twisting and turning little pathways through here Luckily this one is a very well marked out trail, it's actually a National Trail The Pennine Way I like these little tuffs on top There's a nice little stream I've drank from this stream, but when I show you the colour you'll think urgh how can anyone have done that Actually not looking too bad Quite often it's quite orange because of all the iron coming out of the hills, but it's still good I've turned off the Pennine Way now, I'm not going to tell you exactly where I'm going to keep that a little bit of a secret I'll show you why I don't want to make the path too obvious in a little while I've made it up now and I'm where I want to be and there's no one else here and when I said I want to keep the route slightly private I'll show you why I don't want to keep it hidden because it's the worlds worst kept secret But it'd be nice if people had to put a bit of thought into it before they managed to get here So in the Peak District in Derbyshire there are at least 50 plane crashes and here's one of them So these are poppies so it says "In Rememberance" because in Britain at least, poppies are used to signify those lost in armed conflicts and in the military Taken from the fields of France and Belgium where after World War One all the poppies sprouted So people have put these here as a mark of respect because this is a military plane and to be exact it's a United States Airforce plane Okay I'll just read this memorial plaque quickly "In Memory Here lies the wreckage of B-29 Superfortress 'Overexposed' of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron USAF which tragically crashed whilst descending through cloud on 3rd November 1948 killing all 13 crew members The aircraft was on a routine flight from RAF Scrampton to American AFB Burtonwood it is doubtful the crew ever saw the ground Memorial laid by 367 Air Navigation Course of RAF Finningley on 12th November 1988" So 1948 and people still come out and put rememberance poppies out Now those poppies will have been there since November The 11th day of the 11th month is Rememberance Day in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth And there's little wooden crosses Here's the wooden cross and a little American flag So all this large wreckage So the theory is that it was horrible and cloudy and drizzley up here, which it usually is And the pilot was advised that the cloud was between 4000 and 2000 foot So he descended to 2000 foot, but that's the height of Higher Shelf Stones, which is here So we're right on the edge of this little plateau and unfortunately in the cloud they didn't see it and they crashed and most likely died on impact, there were no survivors When the aircraft didn't get to the American Airforce Base, you know, they alerted that there was a possible crash And there some members of the RAF Harpur Hill Mountain Rescue Team about two miles away and they got here They split up into two parties, they got here in drizzle and horrible weather and they confirmed there was no survivors And the next morning people came out and they managed to recover all the bodies It was carrying £7000 in wages, and they managed to recover that satchell as well Such a tragic loss of life So the crew of this wreckage, the Overexposed had completed their tour and three days they were going to return home to the US So they were just dropping mail off in air force bases and they were carrying mail to return Stateside and carrying all the wages so they were heading home The captain, he was 33 years old and he joined the USAF in 1936, Captain Tanner, and he left a wife and two daughters And his wedding ring was lost for years until someone found it and they managed to track his daughter down And this was way before the Internet so it's quite a remarkable feat Managed to track his daughter down and return the wedding ring of her father So this wreckage was 200 yards in total Though people will have scavenged bits And what people would do they'd climb up here and go okay we'll take some wreckage and then realise that up on Bleaklow it's peat, it's soggy and they don't get very far so they'll leave it somewhere And that's what happened to one of the turrets - the cover dome for the turrets, someone tried to move it, only got as far as a streambed and left it there and then peat will have covered it And then I think it was in 2002 it was finally uncovered They went looking for it, they thought they knew where it was and they found it and it got turned to the Glossop Heritage Centre and it was displayed there for a little while and then it was taken, it's on display in Newark I believe now And the daughter of Captain Tanner she has visited here before, she visited in 2008 I know She was only, I think, 4 years old or so when this happened so she never knew her father So this is still a memorial that people come and visit so if you want to come out here please respect that So this is a B-29 Superfortress but it was fitted with special cameras making it an F-13 and they could take photographs of a 3-mile section of ground This plane, the Overexposed, was built in Renton, Washington, and entered service just before the end of World War Two So in 1946 it was then converted to an F-13 with the special cameras so it's tail section would have had an F put on it Now the tail section was here but too many people could see it, too many people coming up, so it was removed So this plane was put into a special unit who were looking at the effects of atomic bombs, this was called Operation Crossroads And they were based in the Marshall Islands and they'd have warships, well decommissioned warships lined up in Bikini Atoll and a bomb would be dropped and this plane would be taking photographs of the B-29 carrying the bomb they'd see it drop and then this plane would get the hell out of the area They'd dive out of the way and be maybe 7-miles away or so when the bomb went off, taking photos the entire time This one was used in what was called Test Able where Dave's Dream dropped a bomb on Bikini Atoll Lagoon and the Overexposed took photographs of that You can actually find the photographs online I've looked at them, it's pretty amazing you can see the bomb doors open on the other B-29 ready to drop its cargo So that's what it did during the atomic tests and then after its contamination checks There's a modern aircraft Noisy thing Gone up in the clouds now They returned to their squadrons after the decontamination, well not decontamination, you know, contamination checks If I think it was contaminated with radiation it would be taken straight out of service But then in 1948 the Russians cut off Berlin, in the famous heating up of the Cold War And this plane was used to take photographs and things like that during the Berlin Airlift And it would take photographs of the Russian occupied area of Germany I'll just read you the names of the 13 people who died if that's okay So, pilot: Captain Landon P. Tanner Captain Harry Stroud Technical Sergeant Ralph Fields Sergeant Charles Wilbanks Sergeant Gene A Gartner Sergeant David T. Moore Technical Sergeant Saul R. Banks Sergeant Donald R. Abrogast Sergeant Robert I. Doyle Private First Class William M. Burrows Corporal M. Franssen Corporal George Ingram And Photographic Advisor Captain Howard Keel of the 4201st Motion Picture Unit And they're the 13 people who lost their lives in this So this is why the Overexposed crash I'm just on the edge now next to the trig point and as you can see it rises quite sharply up into these rocks And when Captain Tanner lowered the plane to get bearings and try and work out where they were sadly they crashed and the wreckage is just down there So here's Higher Shelf Stones There it's focused I've had my lunch up on Bleaklow Head and I'm going to head back down now The Pennine Way continues that way down to Torside and over Black Hill Which you can watch in my second Pennine Way video For me I'm just going to head home Quite a nice short morning just to get out and breathe in some fresh air Quite fortunate to live close to places like this - really cool See the owl? What's he doing out at this time? What can he see? Well I'm back at the tiny stream again so it's time I get my head a bit wet like I usually do Cold! That's actually quite refreshing now Yeah, I love doing that Over here that's a nice view of the Peak District National Park Well, part of it As you can see there's not really many peaks in the Peak District, all the hills are flat and glaciated or round or plateaus It's still beautiful

Description

Much of the main plateau of Bleaklow is a boggy peat moorland, seamed by 'groughs' (pronounced 'gruffs', water-eroded channels in the peat) and lacking strong changes in elevation – in poor conditions its traverse is probably the most navigationally challenging in the Peak District.[2]

Conservation

Bleaklow is part of the National Trust's High Peak Estate. There has been considerable investment of resources in recent years to block many of the eroded peat gulleys as part of major schemes to re-wet and restore healthy Sphagnum moss communities which are essential for peat formation, carbon capture, and reduction in dissolved carbon which contaminates water supplies. Much of this work has been coordinated by the Moors for the Future Partnership, funded by EU LIFE+ programme between 2010 and 2015. This involved laying 52 kilometres (32 mi) of geotextiles to stabilise eroded peat, creating 4,000 mini-dams to retain water, introducing 150,000 moorland plants and spreading 807 million Sphagnum fragments across the whole Bleaklow Project site.[3]

Views

The summit affords views across Manchester, Lancashire and Cheshire to the west and towards the Hope Valley, Holme Moss, Emley Moor and Yorkshire to the east. In exceptional weather conditions it is possible to see Snowdonia in North Wales.[4]

Aircraft crash

Bleaklow Bomber 1948 Superfortress crash site in 2017

There are a number of aircraft crash sites on Bleaklow.[5] On 3 November 1948, USAF Boeing RB-29A Superfortress 44–61999, of the 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 91st Reconnaissance Group, 311th Air Division, Strategic Air Command, crashed at Higher Shelf Stones, Bleaklow (53°27′2.12″N 1°51′54.03″W / 53.4505889°N 1.8650083°W / 53.4505889; -1.8650083), en route from Scampton to Burtonwood. All 13 crew members were killed. A large amount of wreckage of the Bleaklow Bomber is still visible. A memorial was erected at the site in 1988. There is public access to the area.

Gallery

Engine wreckage on Shelfstones
General view of the aircraft wreckage
Memorial plaque by the wreckage
Trig point on Shelf Stones
Descending eroded peat gully on east flank of Bleaklow

References

  1. ^ a b Bleaklow Head at www.hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 11 March 2016
  2. ^ Pilton, Barry (1986). One Man and his Bog. Corgi Books. p. 26. ISBN 0-552-12796-5.
  3. ^ "Moors for the Future – MoorLIFE Project Sites – Bleaklow". Archived from the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Bleaklow". Viewfinder Panoramas.
  5. ^ Collier, Ron; Wilkinson, Roni (1995). Dark Peak Aircraft Wrecks. Vol. 1 (Revised ed.). Wharncliffe Books. ISBN 0850524571.

External links

  • Peak District Information - Bleaklow [1]
  • Computer-generated summit panorama Bleaklow index
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