Losehill Pike Summit, Derbyshire, UK
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GeoRams
N 53° 21.893 W 001° 46.283
30U E 581754 N 5913565
Compass rose on a plinth on the summit of Lose Hill in Derbyshire Peak district. Disk points out and names other summits on view.
Waymark Code: WM2CZ8
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/14/2007
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The history of the naming of Lose Hill and nearby Win Hill is as follows:-
Win Hill and Lose Hill are very prominent features and there is an ancient legend about how they acquired their names from a battle in 626. King Edwin of Northumbria was camped on Win Hill and his rival King Cuicholm of Wessex on Lose Hill. The army from Wessex was much the larger, so Edwin ordered his men to build a stone wall around the summit of the hill. When the battle commenced both sets of troops advanced, but the superior numbers soon started to push Edwin’s forces back. Once the order to retreat came, the Wessex troops sensing victory, charged forward, only to be crushed to death by a hail of boulders heaved down the hill by Edwin’s men to win the battle.
The winners kept Win Hill with the losers settling for Lose Hill. If they had GPS in those days they would realise that Lose Hill is in fact 6m higher.