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 (Sheffield to Chapel en le Frith) 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 (1,696 ft) hill near Castleton in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England.
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