Kinder Scout
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Kinder Scout is a moorland plateau (and mountain) in the Dark Peak of the Derbyshire Peak District in the United Kingdom. Part of the moor, at 636 metres above sea level, is the highest point in the Peak District and the highest point in Derbyshire. It is accessible from the villages of Hayfield and Edale in the High Peak of Derbyshire.
To the North across the Snake Pass (A57), lie the high moors of Bleaklow and Black Hill, which are of similar elevation.
It is a popular hiking location and the Pennine Way crosses Kinder Scout and the moors to the North. This has resulted in the erosion of the underlying peat, prompting work by Derbyshire County Council and the Peak District National Park to repair it. The plateau was also the target of the Mass Trespass of Kinder Scout in 1932, which resulted in a UK-wide rethink of access to public footpaths. From the National Park's inception, a large area of the high moorland north of Edale was designated as 'open country'. Eventually, in 2003, the "right to roam" on uncultivated land was enshrined into law, and this area of open country has been significantly extended.
It was featured on the 2005 TV programme Seven Natural Wonders as one of the wonders of the Midlands, showing a group of people apparently worshipping aliens on the mountain. (Expand).
Kinder Downfall is the highest waterfall in the Peak District, at thirty metres. It lies on the River Kinder, where it flows west over the edge of Kinder Scout. The waterfall was formerly known as Kinder Scut, and it is from this that the plateau derives its name. It feeds Kinder Reservoir.
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