Mountains & hills · East Midlands
Thorpe Cloud
In or near Grindon.
Thorpe Cloud — Named summit at 287 m.
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About
Thorpe Cloud is a mountain in east midlands. (Hill in United Kingdom.) According to Wikipedia: "Thorpe Cloud is an isolated limestone hill lying between the villages of Thorpe and Ilam on the Derbyshire/Staffordshire border at the southern end of Dovedale. The name 'cloud' derives from the Old English word clud which means 'hill'. Thorpe Cloud is popular with the many day-trippers who visit the area, and provides a fine viewpoint north up the dale and south across the Midland plain."
- Coordinates
- 53.0559, -1.7748
Sources
- osm: n600372181 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Thorpe Cloud (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Dovedale.JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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