Axe Edge Moor

Axe Edge Moor

Axe Edge Moor is the major moorland southwest of Buxton in the Peak District, spread over the borders of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire. It is mainly gritstone (Namurian shale and sandstone). Its highest point (1,808 feet) is at SK035706, which is just is slightly lower than Shining Tor (3 miles to the northwest, across the modest dip of the incipient Goyt Valley).

The moor is the source of three noteworthy rivers:

• The River Dove
• The River Manifold
• The River Dane
• The River Wye and
• The River Goyt.

Cheeks Hill on the moor has Shaffordshire's highest point, at the apex of the county's border with Derbyshire here.

On the moor is England's second-highest public house (the Cat and Fiddle Inn).

The three shires of Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire meet the southwestern flank of the moor at Three Shire Heads on the River Dane.

The Axe Edge itself is on the southeastern edge, near the source of the Dove.