Natural Flow Patterns

I recently went for a days walk in the Peak District of Derbyshire. An area of great diversity, it is conventionally split into the northern Dark Peak, where most of the moorland is found and whose geology is gritstone, and the southern White Peak, where most of the population lives and where the geology is mainly limestone-based. My walk was around Kinder Scout, which is a moorland plateau and National Nature Reserve in the Dark Peak. Part of the moor, at 636 metres (2,087 ft) above sea level, is the highest point in the Peak District. The start of the walk was Edale in the Hope Valley, the commencement of the famous Pennine Way long distance walk. The edges of Kinder plateau are known as gritstone edges. They contain precipitous boulders and rocks which have eroded significantly over a geological age, and as the howling wind rises out of the Hope Valley of Edale to meet the plateau edge, they have become excoriated and ribbed into crooked yet enigmatic formations. Some of them are known as The Woolpacks, as they resemble wool stacked and ready to be sent to mills in the neighbouring cities of Manchester and Sheffield at the beginning of the industrial revolution. I include some photographs I took during the walk.