In reply to Al Evans:
> (In reply to Phill Mitch) He's right, on kinder and Bleaklow map reading skills are not enough, especially if the weather clags in. Good compass skills are essential.
Agree - and even with good compass skills it's somewhere between hard and impossible to do proper "pick a feature on your bearing and walk towards it in a straight line" type pinpoint navigation on bits of Kinder and Bleaklow because a) there aren't many features and b) you can't always walk in a straight line because of the bogs. So being able to relocate yourself when you reach the edge of the plateau or start to find some proper features is useful as well.
Having said that, it's a great place to practice because provided you pick a direction and walk in it you will get down to somewhere in the end, and (famous last words) you'd have to be reasonably creative to get yourself into serious trouble...
Other bits of the peak are a lot less difficult though - I don't think Mam Tor or Win Hill or the eastern edges or the limestone dales would present any particular challenges you won't have dealt with in the South Downs, apart from possibly being a bit colder and wetter and bigger.