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The Cloud (hill), the Glossary

The Cloud or Bosley Cloud is a prominent hill on the border between Cheshire and Staffordshire a couple of miles west of the Peak District National Park boundary.^[1]

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Hills of Cheshire
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A523 road

The A523 is a road in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Greater Manchester, and Staffordshire, England running from a junction with the A52 north west of Ashbourne to the A555 near Woodford, passing through Leek and Macclesfield and near Poynton.

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Biddulph

Biddulph is a town in Staffordshire, England, north of Stoke-on-Trent and south-east of Congleton, Cheshire.

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Biddulph Moor

Biddulph Moor is a village located on the hill which bears the same name.

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Bosley

Bosley is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England.

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Calluna

Calluna vulgaris, common heather, ling, or simply heather, is the sole species in the genus Calluna in the flowering plant family Ericaceae.

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Carboniferous

The Carboniferous is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic that spans 60 million years from the end of the Devonian Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Permian Period, Ma.

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Cheshire

Cheshire is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Congleton

Congleton is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England.

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Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37), known informally as the CRoW Act or "Right to Roam" Act, is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament affecting England and Wales which came into force on 30 November 2000.

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CPRE

CPRE, The Countryside Charity, formerly known by names such as the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and the Campaign to Protect Rural England, is a charity in England with over 40,000 members and supporters.

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Double sunset

A double sunset is a rare astro-geographical phenomenon, in which the Sun appears to set twice in the same evening from a specific viewing-point.

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Edward the Confessor

Edward the Confessor (1003 – 5 January 1066) was an Anglo-Saxon English king and saint. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 until his death in 1066. Edward was the son of Æthelred the Unready and Emma of Normandy. He succeeded Cnut the Great's son – and his own half-brother – Harthacnut.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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A footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended for use only by pedestrians and not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles, bicycles and horses.

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Greater Manchester

Greater Manchester is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Gritstone Trail

The Gritstone Trail, or Cheshire Gritstone Trail, is a long-distance footpath in England which follows the most westerly hills of the Peak District from Disley Station to Mow Cop, and on via the Macclesfield Canal to Kidsgrove Station.

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Holmes Chapel

Holmes Chapel is a village and civil parish in Cheshire, England, north of Crewe and south of Manchester; Swettenham Meadows Nature Reserve lies east of the village and Goostrey lies to the north.

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Leek, Staffordshire

Leek is a market town and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, on the River Churnet north east of Stoke-on-Trent.

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List of Ethels

The Ethels are 95 hills in the Peak District of England, mostly over above sea level but including various prominent lower hills. The Cloud (hill) and List of Ethels are mountains and hills of the Peak District.

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List of Marilyns in the British Isles

This is a list of Marilyn hills and mountains in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and surrounding islands and sea stacks.

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Macclesfield

Macclesfield is a market town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East, Cheshire, England.

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Millstone Grit

Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Namurian

The Namurian is a stage in the regional stratigraphy of northwest Europe, with an age between roughly 331 and 319 Ma (million years ago).

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National Trust

The National Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol; Iontaobhas Náisiúnta) is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Ordnance Survey

The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain.

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Peak District

The Peak District is an upland area in central-northern England, at the southern end of the Pennines.

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River Dane

The River Dane is a tributary of the River Weaver that originates in the Peak District area of England.

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Robert Plot

Robert Plot (13 December 1640 – 30 April 1696) was an English naturalist and antiquarian who was the first professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

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Rudyard Lake

Rudyard Lake is a reservoir in Rudyard, Staffordshire, located north-west of the town of Leek, Staffordshire.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Staffordshire Way

The Staffordshire Way is a long-distance walk in Staffordshire, England.

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Summer solstice

The summer solstice or estival solstice occurs when one of Earth's poles has its maximum tilt toward the Sun.

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Timbersbrook

Timbersbrook is a small village in the town parish of Congleton, Cheshire, England.

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Triangulation station

A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_(hill)

Also known as Bosley Cloud, The Cloud (Peak District).

The Cloud (hill), the Glossary

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See also

Hills of Cheshire

Hills of Staffordshire

National Trust properties in Cheshire

National Trust properties in Staffordshire

References