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The Shivering Mountain
The hill that shakes off its own face.
See it clearly
- What's there
- A great bare landslip face and a broken road
- Legend from
- Local name; Hobbes 1636
- Tone
- Curious
The mountain shivers. Its face slides away grain by grain, and a road went with it.
Mam Tor rises above the Hope Valley at the head of Castleton. Its eastern face is a vast landslide, and because loose shale keeps sliding the hill is called the Shivering Mountain. Thomas Hobbes counted it among the Seven Wonders of the Peak in 1636. The Castleton Historical Society says the slip began some 3,500 to 4,000 years ago and is still moving. The main road from Sheffield across its eastern face had to be repaired again and again until a larger slip in 1975–76 broke it, and it was closed for good in 1979.