Roaches Skyline: A Walk Through Stone and Story
The greatest concentration of celebrated gritstone edges in the Peak District lies along the eastern fringe of the national park, where bold escarpments rise to confine the moorland stretching west from Sheffield. Stanage, Froggatt and Curbar edges are among the most revered names in British climbing. Far to the southwest, in the Staffordshire Moorlands, the Roaches forms a similarly rugged gritstone escarpment. Unlike its eastern counterparts, however, it does more than define the edge of open moorland; it creates a…