Monday, October 7, 2013

Hike to Corbar Cross


We were lost. Then Roo decided to run straight up a very steep hill to see what was what - turns out we had found IT. 
My sister is an adventurer and she is the best person to spend a day wandering in the woods with. Even when we thought we were very lost we were laughing and running and singing and having extremely good quality conversations. 
Too much goodness. 

Corbar Cross - at 1,433 feet (437 m) it is a magnificent viewpoint, west, south and east.  The view north is blocked by the higher land of Combs Moss, and the view westwards in constrained somewhat by Axe Edge, the Cat and Fiddle and Shining Tor, but southwards and eastwards the view is very extensive, reaching right to the hills of the Upper Dove, the East Moors and to the Losehill-Mam Tor ridge.  On the summit of the hill stands Corbar Cross.  The original cross was given to the Roman Catholic church by the Duke of Devonshire in 1950 to commemorate Holy Year.  The cross was replaced in the 1980s but was cut down as a protest  in 2010 during the visit of Pope Bendict XVI to the UK.  The cross, a simple wooden structure, was replaced in May 2011. 

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