Chinley Churn is a prominent

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hill between the villages of

Chinley Chinley is a rural village in the High Peak Borough of Derbyshire, England, with a population of 2,796 at the 2011 Census. Most of the civil parish (called Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside) is within the Peak District National Park. Historical ...

and Hayfield in the

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, England. The summit is above sea level. The hilltop ridge area is designated as open access land, following the

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. The trig pillar at the lower secondary summit further south is on private land. Craken Edge Quarry (worked from at least 1640 until the 1900s) is designated a Regionally Important Geological Site. A burial barrow (near the site of the now removed modern trig pillar) was reported in 1901 as the resting place of an ancient

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chieftain called Taro Trin (the Bull of Conflict), according to tradition. Chinley Churn is one of the 95 Ethels hills of the Peak District, launched by the countryside charity CPRE in 2021. The trig pillar on the hill was removed sometime after April 2024 – thought to be by the farmer
A video
posted by "The Peak District Viking" is thought to be the last pictures of the trig, which show it at an angle and uprooted
A further video
from "Wild Days Adventure" on 23 June shows the hilltop with no trig pillar and the original site covered by hay.

References

{{Peaks of the Peak District Mountains and hills of the Peak District Mountains and hills of Derbyshire