Mam Tor
| Mam Tor | |
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Mam Tor, July 2011
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 517 m (1,696 ft) |
| Prominence | 62 m (203 ft) |
| Parent peak | Kinder Scout |
| Listing | Dewey |
| Coordinates | 53°20′57″N 1°48′38″W / 53.34914°N 1.81069°WCoordinates: 53°20′57″N 1°48′38″W / 53.34914°N 1.81069°W |
| Geography | |
 Mam Tor
Mam Tor in Derbyshire
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| Location | Derbyshire, England |
| Parent range | Peak District |
| OS grid | SK127836 |
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OS Explorer OL1 OS Landranger 110 |
OS Explorer OL1
Mam Tor is a 517 m (1,696 ft) hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England. Its name means "mother hill", so called because frequent landslips on its eastern face have resulted in a multitude of 'mini-hills' beneath it. These landslips, which are caused by unstable lower layers of shale, also give the hill its alternative name of Shivering Mountain. In 1979 the continual battle to maintain the A625 road (Sheffield to Chapel en le Frith) on the crumbling eastern side of the hill was lost when the road officially closed as a through-route.
At the base of the Tor and nearby are four show caves: Blue John Cavern, Speedwell Cavern, Peak Cavern and Treak Cliff Cavern where lead, Blue John, fluorspar and other minerals were once mined.
Mam Tor is on the southern edge of the Dark Peak (sandstones) and overlooks the White Peak (limestones), including the notable dry gorge of Winnats Pass. It is a dominating link between the eastern end of Rushup Edge and the western end of the Great Ridge, which together separate the Hope Valley to the south from Edale to the north, and is a popular ridgewalk.
Mam Tor is made of rocks of Carboniferous age, approximately 320 million years old. The base of Mam Tor is composed of black shales of the Bowland Shale Formation of Serpukhovian age overlain by turbiditic sandstone of the Mam Tor Sandstone Formation of Bashkirian age.
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