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Beeston Tor

You can see 3 km from here, looking south-west.

32Viewyas Score

Cliff

Calculating the panorama…

Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.

The view

Up to 3 km away.

Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.

32out of 100

Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).

  • 3 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
  • 88%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 215 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.

The sun

The best sunsets are from April to May, in September and in December.

When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.

  1. Jansouth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  2. Febsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  3. Marwest28 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  4. Aprwest32 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  5. Maynorth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  6. Junnorth-west50 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  7. Julnorth-west42 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  8. Augwest26 min before the sea-level sunset25%
  9. Sepwest36 min before the sea-level sunset29%
  10. Octwest30 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  11. Novsouth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  12. Decsouth-west32 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  • Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
  • Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
  • %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).

The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.

The place

Beeston Tor.

Limestone cliff in Staffordshire

Beeston Tor is a cliff in United Kingdom, 215 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 3 km away, looking south-west.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 88% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from April to May, in September and in December.

Beeston Tor seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

Get there and stay

Plan the visit

A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.

Tours, cable cars and tickets for Beeston TorGetYourGuideSee prices Stays with a view near Beeston TorBooking.comSee prices Car hire at MAN airport (Manchester, Greater Manchester)Discover CarsSee prices 

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From above

The viewpoint and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.

Beeston Tor seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 7other viewpoints within 5 kmLover's Leap and 6 more
  • 24named peaks within 5 kmWetton Hill (East), Thorpe Cloud, Ecton Hill and 21 more
  • 8marked trails within 3 kmHamps Way, Manifold Trail, Manifold Valley Circular Walk and 5 more
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 kmAlstonefield Camping Barn
  • 17car parks within 3 km
  • 1visitor centres within 5 kmMilldale Information Barn
  • 4restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 60campsites within 10 kmNew House Farm, Heathy Roods Farm, Rivendale Caravan and Leisure Park and 57 more
  • 66places to stay within 10 kmLower Damgate Farm Holiday Cottages, Garden Farm, Ilam Hall Youth Hostel and 63 more
  • cable car and funicular stations within 5 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

What you see from Beeston Tor, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas36 mountains within 25 km
The Roaches505 m · 14 kmOliver Hill513 m · 16 kmCheeks Hill520 m · 18 kmAxe Edge551 m · 18 kmShutlingsloe506 m · 20 kmThe Cloud343 m · 22 kmShining Tor559 m · 23 kmBlack Edge507 m · 23 km
Islandyasthe island
Great Britain228,938 km²
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Tittesworth Reservoir0.6 km² · 13 kmCarsington Water2.9 km² · 15 km
Cavernyas5 caves within 20 km
Thor's Cave · 1.2 kmLud's Church · 16 kmDream Cave · 17 kmGreat Masson Cavern · 19 kmPoole's Cavern · 19 km
Riveryasthe river nearby
River ChurnetRiver Dove72 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Other viewpoints nearby.

Beeston Tor

United Kingdom

  • 32Viewyas Score
  • 3 kmFarthest ridge
  • —Peaks in view
  • 215 mAltitude

Windgather Rocks

United Kingdom · 27 km

  • 73Viewyas Score
  • 140 kmFarthest ridge
  • 383Peaks in view
  • 408 mAltitude

See the guide

Peak District

United Kingdom · 34 km

  • 75Viewyas Score
  • 140 kmFarthest ridge
  • 347Peaks in view
  • 634 mAltitude

See the guide

Stanage Edge

United Kingdom · 33 km

  • 66Viewyas Score
  • 96 kmFarthest ridge
  • 24Peaks in view
  • 425 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4880146) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

Do you prefer beaches, lakes, mountains, waterfalls, islands, rivers, canyons, caves, dark skies, viewpoints, birdwatching or forests?

Same idea, other landscapes: field atlases built on open data, in seven languages.

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viewpointsViewyasEvery viewpoint with its real 360° panorama: the peaks you can name, how far you see and where the sun sets.You are here
birdwatchingBirdyasEvery bird sanctuary and wetland with the species recorded month by month: who is resident, who comes for the summer, who only passes through.Visit forestsForestyasEvery forest with its land-cover rings, what grows and lives in it, and the best months to walk it.Visit