Geography
Mam Tor is near the top of Winnats Pass (a steep and narrow limestone gorge), forms the eastern end of Rushup Edge, and dominates the western end of the "Great Ridge", one of the most famous, beautiful, and easy-to-reach ridgewalks in the Peak District and which separates the two arms of the Hope Valley: the valley of the River Noe (Edale) to the north, and the Peakshole Water (Castleton) to the south.
Mam Tor is made of rocks of Carboniferous age, approximately 320 million years old. The base of Mam Tor is composed of black shales of the Bowland Shale Formation of Serpukhovian age overlain by tubiditic sandstone of the Mam Tor Sandstone Formation of Bashkirian age.
In perfect weather conditions, Manchester City Centre, Stockport, and Winter Hill can be seen from here.
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