Bamford Edge

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Bamford Edge is a gritstone escarpment on the moor above Bamford, and the reason so many photographs of Ladybower Reservoir look the way they do — the water and the Hope Valley laid out below the rocks. It’s open access land, reached by a stiff pull up from the road near the top. Bamford station sits about 2km down in the valley.

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Photo of Ladybower Reservoir, a reservoir near Hope in the Peak District, Derbyshire, central England.

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