Hey up Rhiannon,

I've been up on Bleaklow a number of times and it's one of the craziest places out there, not only for the huge number of strangely shaped rocks and outcrops but because of the deep peat groughs you have to walk through. Easy to spend an entire afternoon up/in there and see nothing but sky....or more than likely cloud. Paths aren't a biggy mind much of Bleaklow has been Access Land for sometime now....

Ain't always been so bleak though.....In the Mesolithic the Bleaklow moors with their broken birch kinda scrub vegetation were the hunting hotspots and within easy reach of the wooded valleys of Derwent and Ashopton etc. The eastern edge of Bleaklow, especially around Charlesworth and Cold Harbor Moor, has turned up masses of microliths and flakes, especially along the natural routes of the cloughs between the high and low ground.
Peat started to form on Bleaklow before the Mesolithic was out and the moors have been largely 'ignored' ever since.....

nice one
stu.