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 About 200 years ago Jacob Marshall opened up his own path from Edale towards the Swine’s Back ridge on Kinder Scout.
Jacob was a travelling salesman who used this important trade route through the Dark Peak. Over a period of time he gradually cut steps into the steep hillside to use as a short-cut .
Out of kindness, he used to send his mule the old way round. It was longer but not nearly as steep. Depending on which direction they were travelling, they rejoined each other at the top or bottom of ‘Jacob’s ladder’.
Jacob Marshall could not have imagined that tens of thousands of future walkers would climb up and down his steep track for pleasure. Unfortunately, as part of the Pennine Way, a long-distance footpath, Jacob’s Ladder became severely eroded.
In recent years a Manpower Services Commission Community Programme, working with the National Trust, has carried out major repair work to this famous feature with a Biblical name. (According to the Book of Genesis, Jacob saw a ladder in a dream.)
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