Surveying the high point of Kinder Scout, Derbyshire
Kinder Scout has a new high point!
By
LFTO News Team
Outdoor headlines
27 July 2009 15:58
And unless you get there quickly it'll be gone!
The same surveyors that brought you a new Nuttall can also reveal that Kinder Scout is two metres lower than we'd thought.
The actual high point has been measured at a mere 634m (Modern maps have it at 636m) and is situated just yards away from one of the many cairns on the summit plateau.
Surveyors John Barnard, Graham and Janet Jackson, and authors John and Anne Nuttall, decided to lug the surveying equipment to the top to take the latest reading.
"It's a particularly unusual summit because in wet weather the peat simply sets off downhill meaning what was the high point yesterday is gone tomorrow," says Anne Nuttall.
"The high point is just a peat knoll with a bit of grass on top and it's going to erode away so our official recommendation is to see it now before it goes.
"There are only inches in it and once this knoll has washed away the nearby cairn will once again be the highest point."
The Nuttalls, authors of The Mountains of England and Wales, have previously joined the same surveyors to re-test the height of Mynydd Graig Goch in Snowdonia.
It's official height was 1,998ft but this was changed after their findings revealed it was actually six inches over 2,000ft, thus qualifying it as a Nuttall (English and Welsh hills of at least 2,000ft and with at least 50ft drop between them).
