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    PARKHOUSE & CHROME HILLS

    Mar 18, 2022 3 minutes
    “As you walk down from High Edge, you will notice Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill, fantastic and contorted like wrestlers contending with an invisible opponent.” Patrick Monkhouse,
    One Foot in The Peak (1932)

    HERE WAS A TIME when no right of way existed up either of these grand little hills of the White Peak. The CRoW Act changed that lamentable situation, and this whole miniature mountain range of former reef knolls in seas of the Carboniferous age which stretches from Aldery Cliff to High Edge that’s along the footpath leading down to Harpur Hill is now open to all. When

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