Crook Hill summits and wall

This is a view of the twin summits of Crook Hill, near Ladybower in the Peak District. Bamford Edge is also visible on the upper left skyline, and Win Hill at the upper right.

I liked the textures offered by the drystone wall and the grasses; and the brooding presence of the rocky summits, the dark trees and clouds.

Although not of great elevation compared with the heights all around, Crook Hill's airy rocky summits offer a lovely viewpoint of the surrounding moors and gritstone edges.
The NW summit (nearest in this photo) at 382 m is slightly higher than the SE summit (374 m).

The summits are residual tors composed of Kinderscout Grit (Namurian) with a solifluction mantle of gritstone blocks all around.

The SW faces of both tors display the steepest slopes probably because material removed from the summit by freeze-thaw conditions has been steadily removed by successive phases of gelifluction and/or solifluction into the deep Ashop valley below. In contrast, on the NE slopes with an aspect facing away from most of the sun's warmth, the material has not been transported so far from its source and remains mostly piled up around the summit tors.