Simon Jenkins rates the panorama from Kinder Scout to Stanage Edge as one of the top ten in England. Mam Tor was declared to be one of the Seven Wonders of the Peak by Thomas Hobbes in his 1636 book De Mirabilibus Pecci. At the base of the Tor and nearby are four show caves: Blue John Cavern, Speedwell Cavern, Peak Cavern and Treak Cliff Cavern where lead, Blue John, fluorspar and other minerals were once mined. The hill is crowned by a late Bronze Age and early Iron Age univallate hill fort, and two Bronze Age bowl barrows. In 1979, the continual battle to maintain the A625 road on the crumbling eastern side of the hill was lost when the road officially closed as a through-route, with the Fox House to Castleton section of the road being re-designated as the A6187. These landslips, which are caused by unstable lower layers of shale, also give the hill its alternative name of Shivering Mountain.
Its name means "mother hill", so called because frequent landslips on its eastern face have resulted in a multitude of "mini-hills" beneath it.
Mam Tor is a 517 m hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England.
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