The
Edge - Part II
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For drama, though, here's
where The Edge gets most edgy - Stormy Point ...
... where the extensive
views are best seen ...
... weather permitting!
When it is clear, however,
the Pennines of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, 20 miles away, make
up the horizon to the East and North-East. The
Cage at Lyme Park, some eight miles away, is just visible
protruding from the darker ridge on RH side of the picture and
directly above it the 'crease' in the hillside that is the Kinder
Downfall on Kinder Scout.
Seen from a distance in
the hills to the east of Macclesfield, The Edge is a north-pointing
finger of higher land raised above the Cheshire Plain. Here we
are just below the viewpoint at Stormy Point with the exposed
sandstone shelf just visible at the central low point of the horizon.
At various points along
the ridge, not only at Stormy Point, the extensive views become
apparent. Here looking NE towards Stockport with the British Aerospace
airfield at Woodford visible right of centre in the middle distance
as the light lines of hangar roofs and an aircraft on the apron
outside.
Here looking due east to
Bollington.
From the west side of the
ridge looking SW with the line of the Peckforton Hills and the
triangle of the hill at Beeston Castle, some 30 miles away, making
the horizon line.
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