1. Walk past the Old Station to
join the railway line. Turn left, signed
Monsal Trail, Litton Mill, Bakewell.
2. Follow the railway
line. After 1.2 miles you pass under a
stone bridge and 20 yards on turn left through the wall, signposted Monsal
Trail via Litton Mill. There is no
through way ahead.
3. Walk onto a path which
starts to descend through a wood. On
your left is the small
4. Walk past the “Muddy Boots”
tea room and walk down to the entrance to Litton Mills, marked by two stone
walls with a couple of balls on top.
5. Walk past the old mill and
at the end of the mill, on your left is the old steam house with a chimney, you
turn right and then immediate left.
Continue along the well-marked track and the river feeding the old mill is
now on your right hand side.
6. Between Litton Mill and
Cressbrook Mill, you are walking with the river on your right, which at one
point becomes quite wide, sweeping round to the right. This area is known at Water-cum-Jolly dale.
7. You cross over the wooden
bridge and then meet a track and turn left.
The track swings round to the left.
On your right is the old mill.
Keep with the track which leads down to the road.
8. On meeting the road, turn
right. There is a wooden footpath sign
ahead of you with a yellow arrow pointing right to Monsal Head. Turn right and walk down the road.
9. After approximately ½ mile
you reach a little parking area on your right with picnic tables, heading into
a small village/hamlet known as Upperdale.
Immediately in front of the Upperdale Guest House sign, turn right down
a small lane leading to a bridge over the river.
10. Cross over the bridge and
swing round to the left and you will see the track starts to rise, swings
right, and passes under the railway bridge and just past the bridge swings left
through the metal gate. Rejoin the
Monsal Trail. Do not continue upwards to
Brushfield. Swing left onto the Monsal
Trail. 3 mile mark. This is the old
Monsal Dale station.
11. Turn right and continue
along the former railway line. On
reaching the Monsal Viaduct, cross over.
12. Just before the blanked off
tunnel, take the footpath on your left.
Climb up the path and turn right at the top. Cross over the road towards the Monsal Head
Hotel and cross over the road opposite the hotel.
13. Take the lane signposted to
Little Longstone and Great Longstone.
Continue on this lane slightly downhill, until you reach Little
Longstone. Pass the pinfold on your
right and rows of cottages to your left and right. Pass the Packhorse Inn on your left and then
the Hollows B & B.
14. At the end of a stone wall,
turn right by the footpath sign “Ashford and Monsal Trail”. Pass through the gate and follow the clear
path across the meadow.
15. After about 200m there is a
stone wall to your right. Keeping this
wall on your right follow the path to a gate in a wall. Pass through the gate and follow the path
straight ahead, picking up another stone wall on your right. Pass through another gate. After about 120m you reach a stile in the
wall on your right. Climb over and turn
left. Your are now back on the Monsal
Trail.
16. Follow the Monsal Trail for
3 miles, ignoring any footpaths off to the right or the left, until you reach
Old Bakewell Station.
17. Continue ahead on the trail
past the station for a further 400 metres until you approach a bridge. Just before this bridge turn left and walk up
the steps to the stile. Cross over the
stile onto the bridge. Here turn left
and walk up the well-defined path to the next stile by a metal gate.
18. Cross over the stile and
continue following the path waymarked by the yellow arrow, crossing Bakewell
Golf Course and continuing straight ahead towards a wood. After crossing the golf course continue into
the wood - the footpath is well marked and well-defined.
19. The footpath after a short
while swings right and starts to work its way uphill through the wood. Ignore the path off to the right, carry
straight on upwards. Two-thirds of the
way up a path crosses you - your route is still upwards towards the wall at the
top of the hill. Continue upwards, using
the stream as your guide, which leads you to a stone wall with a stile.
20. Cross over the stile and
bear 45° right, walking along a well-defined path to the right of some trees on
the horizon. Continue past the trees to
a stile in the fence to the right of the pond.
Do not walk to the gate, walk to the stile immediately to the right of
the pond.
21. Cross over the stile and
bear left to another stile in the fence at the far end of the pond and follow
the arrow marked for Chatsworth. At the
next stile bear 45° right and follow the defined path which goes down the
middle of the meadow, steadily downhill.
22. As you are walking down this
meadow, you reach another stile to the left of a wooden gate. Cross over and continue straight ahead. You now have a walled wood on your right hand
side.
23. After a couple of hundred
yards the wood sweeps down to the right and you continue straight ahead down
the middle of the meadow and the path actually starts to swings round to the
left. You are now heading towards a
barn.
24. Just before reaching the barn
the path takes a positive left turn, 90° up to a gate. This left turn is marked by a footpath
sign. Pass through the gate and continue
along the track through the wood. This
track is walled on either side. This
track swings left and drops downhill to a gate.
25. Pass through the gate - look
45° right and you will have a wonderful view of Chatsworth House and Hunting
Lodge. At this point you have turned 90°
right and you are going straight downhill, keeping the wood on your right hand
side as your companion through the downhill stretch as the path becomes
well-defined.
26. Ahead of you in the distance
you can see the ridge which is the edge of Beeley Moor, a part which you will
be crossing shortly. Eventually the path
starts heading steeply downhill, crossing a track, to meet some white gates by
the road.
27.
On reaching the road, pass through the gates on to the clear wide track
and head into the car park, keeping the main road on your left. This is your first checkpoint.
2 - Calton Lees car park to the Bull’s Head, Holymoorside
1. Leave Carlton Lees car park,
heading towards the garden centre. At
the top of the drive, a small path leads towards your left away from the garden
centre. After 20 yards bear left towards
the road, dropping down through some trees.
2. On reaching the road, turn
right towards the hump-backed bridge with traffic lights. Cross over this and carry on down the road
until you reach the corner. Follow the
road as it bends right then immediately after the bend turn left on to a track
past a house.
3. Carry on along the lane up
to the top of the hill. The lane winds
up past a farm. Just after the farm you
reach two footpath signs, one on each side.
Continue along the lane heading for the wood at the top - do not turn
off the lane. If you turn off the lane
you are going to have to go further and its your fault!
4. Carry on through the trees
straight up the lane with a high bank on your left behind a wall. Carry on up the lane, the lane bears left and
you approach a wood on the right hand side of the lane. Keep straight on.
5. As the path bends sharply
right you can see a gate with a stile on your left - climb the stile on to the
track on your right. After 20 yards
there is a post to the right with a footpath - follow this footpath. The path on the right that you take is
waymarked with a sign saying “Footpath to open country”. Do not carry on along the lane.
6. Follow the waymarked arrows
where the path bends right towards a wood.
Head towards a gate in the wall before the wood. Just before you reach the gate, bear right to
a smaller gate in another wall. Cross
over the stile to the right of the gate and carry on up the hill, with the wall
on your left, following the waymarks.
7. At the top of the hill where
the wall bends to your left, a track crosses the path. Turn 90° right along this track over the open
moorland. The path heads towards an
aerial mast in the distance with a picket fence on your right hand side. Carry on along the track.
8. Where the fence ends, carry
on along the well-worn path which bends to the right of the aerial mast heading
towards nothing in the distance. Where
the track becomes a footpath watch out for the waymarked posts which should
guide you across the narrow footpath.
9. After about a mile and half,
the path starts to drop downhill and you can see a road in the distance to your
left. A wall meets the path on the
left. Carry on downhill until you reach
the road.
10. On reaching the road, cross
a small stile to the right hand side of the gate. Turn left and walk along the road. The road bends right, climbs over a small
hillock and then a left turn.
Immediately turn right down a lane towards Upper Loads. The lane drops down and then climbs up again
to a fork in the lane. Take the left
hand fork.
11. After about 50 yards, where
the lane drops down and bears left, you will see a footpath sign on your right
to the left of a gate. Take this
footpath over the field. Cross over the
field towards a house with a walled garden.
Move to the left hand side and walk with the house on your right to a
stile by the side of the wall.
12. Over the stile turn left
past a farmhouse on your right, with a driveway. In the corner where the road bends left there
is a footpath. Go down the footpath by
the side of the farmhouse. The path goes
90° right round the back of the farmhouse.
13. Pass through a gap in the
hedge to the right hand side of a tree with a sign saying “Dogs must be kept on
a leash”. Follow down the field with a
hedge on your left.
14. Cross the stile to the right
hand side of a red post and carry straight on with the hedge on your left, with
the crooked spire on the distance.
15. Cross another stile in the
corner of the field and carry straight on with a small wood on your left.
16. After about 30 yards there
is a clearing in the wood. Go into the
clearing and follow the wood down the side of the field. Once through the wood, cross a small stream
and follow a footpath through some trees with a fence to the left hand side.
17. At the end of a small copse,
bear left through a small squeezer stile and walk along the field, with a hedge
on your right. Cross two stiles and then
take the right hand footpath, continuing with the wood on your left and hedge
on your right. Follow the track down,
keeping the hedge to your right.
18. You will come to a gate with
a squeezer stile to the left of a gate.
Go through the stile and walk down the next field with a hedge and
another wood to your left.
19. At the end of the field, the
footpath turns left into the wood and immediately right through a squeezer
stile and through to another field.
Carry on down the field, again keeping the hedge and wood to your
left. At the bottom of the field, turn
left into the wood and immediately to your right there is a stile - cross over
into another field.
20. Carry on across the field,
again with the wood on your left. Soon
you will drop down into the wood and to a small stream with a wooden
footbridge. Cross over the bridge and
carry on along the footpath with the stream to your right, just below you.
21. At the end of the wood cross
a small stile to reach a road. At the
road turn left, climb up the lane to a stile crossing the wall on your
right. Cross over the stile and across
the field to a stile in the top corner by the gate. Cross over the stile and continue straight
ahead along the farm track through to a gate in the wall in front of you. Again
go straight on, following the farm track through to a gate in the next wall.
22. Carry straight on again,
through to another gate on the edge of the
23.
On meeting the road bear right.
Go down to the main road and turn right.
You will see the Bull’s Head on your left. Cross over the road and enter the Bull’s Head
car park. This is your second
checkpoint.
3 – Bull’s Head, Holymoorside, to CCS Media Car Park, Birdholme
1. Leave the Bull’s Head car
park. Turn left, football fields on your
left, and follow the road up the hill past the
2. At the top of the track
cross a stile. Continue with a wall on
your left through a gap in the hedge.
Continue across the next field with a hedge on your left. In the corner of the field enter a small gap
through a hedge over a stile.
3. Go up the track with
conifers lining the right hand side of the path, over a stile, straight across
a track through a gate. Go across to a
gap in the fence opposite and follow the field down, keeping the hedge to the
left hand side.
4. Go over two more stiles and
on to the road - go straight across.
Follow the first public footpath sign up a track. Follow the track past a farmyard on your
left.
5. Immediately after the farm
take a left turn up a field, by the side of a grey gate (take care – there is
an electric fence!). Pass through this
gate and start walking up the obvious track.
On your left hand side you will see a wood and you keep that on your
left hand side, heading slightly uphill towards a stile. To your left you have a very grand view of
the industrial town of
6. Make your way uphill to the
gate in the corner of the field under a very big tree. Pass through the squeezer stile. Carry on along the path ahead of you at the
edge of the field - field to the right, woodland to the left.
7. With the wood on your left,
ahead of you is another squeezer stile through a hedge. Pass through and continue along the bottom of
the field. Hedgerow on your left. At this point, for the seriously eagle-eyed,
look to your left and you can see the
8. Further on to a stile in the
hedgerow in the corner of the field, pass through over a small dyke. Continue straight ahead. Hedge on your left. Start to bear right, still keeping the
woodland ahead of you on your left. With
the wood on your left, you meet a wooden stile and the hedgerow crossing
you. Cross over. Continue straight ahead, still with wood on
your left.
9. 50 yards further on,
immediately at the end of the wood, you will see a stone and wooden stile on
your left. This is also marked by a post
with a yellow top - waymarker, green background, yellow arrow. Cross over both stone and wooden stile into a
field. There is a farm immediately ahead
of you.
10. Turn right and walk down the
field, hedgerow on your right rather than wall on your left. Towards the bottom of the field swing round
to your left and head for a wooden fence to the right hand side of a barn.
11. Cross over the wooden stile
in the middle of the fence onto a path.
You will have wooden fence on your right, barbed wire running down,
there’s a fence on your left. Down on your
right hand side there is a small brook.
Continue down between the fences, downhill through some bushes. The path is fairly well defined, just keep
the wooden fence on your left.
12. When you reach the bottom of
the hill you will see a wooden footbridge which crosses the brook. Cross over this bridge. The path swings round to the left, winding
its way through the wood. Continue
straight ahead until you reach a wooden gate.
Pass through the wooden gate, walk upwards with the fence on your right
until you reach a stile in the fence.
13. Cross over the stile onto a
small drive, turn right, up to the main road and then swing left onto the main
road and walk down the pavement towards some small cottages. Ahead of you on the right you will see a road
chevron. 50 yards after the chevron
there is a footpath on the right. You
will need to cross over this road in the safest place.
14. Walk down past the chevron and you will see a
footpath sign on your right, at the side of a stone wall. Turn right and walk along this path, which
leads eventually to a track. Walk along
this track towards some farm buildings.
Do not divert onto the minor track on your left. Continue along the main track, wall on your
left.
15. Just before entering into
the farmyard, bear to the right of the farm and then round the side heading
down to a new stile. Cross over the
stile. Turn left and walk along the path
at the side of the farm building on your left.
Past the farm building, field and paths drops to a wooden stile in the
left hand corner. Cross over the
stile. The path swings round to the left
after the end of the fence and makes it way down to the side of another small
brook, winds its way through some bushes and then swings round right to a stile
at the side of a hedge, crossing the brook just before that.
16. Cross over the stile. Turn right.
Walk steadily uphill towards a wall, with a hedgerow on your right. At the end of hedgerow there is a big
corrugated barn and ahead of you a grey gate.
To the right of this grey gate, in the corner of the field, is a wooden
stile.
17. Cross over the stile onto a
lane and turn right. This is Harper Hill
House Farm, Leverton – a very nice old building. Opposite the entrance to the farm, turn left
across the road and you will see a wooden footpath sign. There is a stone stile in the wall, next to a
rather fancy gate.
18. Cross over the stone
stile. Continue ahead, hedgerow on your
left, heading towards a small wood and a stone wall. Where the hedge meets the stone wall at a
gate go through the gate onto a path which has a well-built fence on your left
and a wall on your right. Continue down
this path.
19. After 220 yards or so of
this path you reach another gate and a wooden stile. Cross over.
Continue straight ahead, now with another style of fence on your left.
20. Cross the next stile. This is marked with a green background,
yellow arrow. You continue straight
ahead to the corner of the wood ahead of you.
Cross over a stile to the right of a metal gate.
21. Continue ahead to a stile
straight ahead of you - you now have the wood on your right. Cross over the next stile. Continue straight ahead towards a rather high
hedgerow. Cross over the stile which is
in the middle of this hedgerow and turn left ignoring the path coming in from
your right. Walk steadily downhill with
the hedge on your left in the direction of a farm ahead of you.
22. Pass through a slightly
unusual wooden stile which has got a left and right turn. Marked on this stile is a funny red disc
which marks the route of the
23. Past the corner of this
field, turn left. Cross over the fence
and then turn right and continue along
24. Cross straight over the road
to a stone stile opposite. This is
marked with a public footpath. This is
still the
25. Having crossed the stone
stile, continue straight ahead, wall on your right. Cross over the next wooden stile where you
leave the
26. Heading towards these houses
you will see a hedgerow on your right and down in the right hand corner of this
field, the hedge meets a stone wall with a wooden stile. Cross over the wooden stile and continue down
the path, wall on your left. Very nice
fence on your right and a house on your right.
On your left there is a small wood which looks well maintained.
27. After about 250 yards, having
just passed a shed on your right and a very nicely kept garden on your right,
you get to a small gap and out into an open field, leaving the wood on your
left. The field is a playing field and
park. Continue straight ahead, pass
through a squeezer stile into this wood.
Take the quite well-defined path off to the right which winds it way
through the wood, heading steadily downhill.
28. At the bottom of the wood,
cross over an open stile. Cross over a
sort of stone bridge over a gully and out into open countryside again. Walk straight ahead down an obvious track
across the field in front of you.
29. At the opposite end of this
field you cross a bridge over a babbling brook.
Just over the bridge turn right.
Walk along the path which runs parallel to the brook. Eventually you will come to a concrete post
where the path bends slightly left to an open field and turn 90° right.
30. Continue walking with the
brook on your right. Walking parallel to
the brook, a hedgerow appears on your right and you are heading for some
houses. Eventually you meet a very
definite path coming across you. Turn right and walk down this path to the
white metal gate at the entrance to this field.
31. Once through the stile to
the left of the white gate you join the road.
Unfortunately now there is a section of road walking which is absolutely
unavoidable in this area.
32. Now you are onto a road
called
33.
Turn right and walk down this main road - this is the A61. 100 yards on your left is the CCS Media car
park. This is your third checkpoint.
4 – CCS Media Car Park to Boot and Shoe, Grassmoor
1. On leaving the car park,
turn left and walk along the A61on the pavement. A couple of hundred yards after Long
2. Turn left, your road walking
complete and walk across the field opposite - straight ahead, a very well
defined path, making your way towards a track and a bridge which crosses the
Midland Mainline railway.
3. At the bottom of the field,
this continues straight ahead over a small footbridge over a dyke, still
continuing straight ahead to get to the railway bridge.
4. You cross the stone walled
footbridge over the railway line.
Continue straight ahead. Ignore
the first track on your right. Continue
straight up. At the top of the hill bear
left and then right. Carry on along the
footpath which is bounded by a hedge on your right and wire fence on your
left. This part of the path ends
adjacent to the end of the playing field on your left and you walk then on to a
wide track and down to a gate with a stile to the right of the gate.
5. Cross over the stile, turn
90° right to cross over a stile to the right of a metal gate. Cross over this and continue along the field,
hedge on your right. Cross over the next
stile. Continue straight ahead,
hedgerows on both sides now. In about
100 yards cross over a little dyke, continue straight ahead now with hedgerow
only on your right.
6. Bear slightly left, past a
concrete post at the top of a field, hedge on your left. At the end of this field, continue straight
ahead along this path which goes across the middle of the next field. At the top of the field on your left is a cemetery
and the view to your right is unfortunately of a coking plant. On the opposite side of this field the path
bends round to continue straight ahead forcing a hedgerow to be on your left.
7. Pass through the next hedge
to continue straight ahead, hedgerow still on your left. Continue straight ahead through the next
hedgerow which crosses you, hedgerow still on your left. Cross through one more hedgerow, still
continuing straight ahead along a well-defined path, which takes you to a
lane. On reaching that lane you walk
straight ahead under a bridge.
8. Continue straight ahead through
a very wide lane towards some farm buildings.
Continue past the farm building. To the right you will see a stone stile
in the wall next to a metal gate.
9. Cross over the stile. Continue up the lane, going slightly uphill
and continue straight ahead with hedgerow on your left-hand side. Eventually the track just before some houses
swings round to the left. Where it
swings round to the left you look to your right and you will see a path that
runs across a field, diagonal right.
Take this path.
10. When you reach the hedgerow,
the path bends slightly to the left. You
now have a hedgerow on your right hand side at the bottom of the field. Continue straight on now with hedgerow on
right, wire fence on left. The path
eventually winds under a couple of bushes to join a lane and at this lane you
turn right. Walk steadily downhill for
about 10 yards, then turn left along another signed lane. Where the lane bends round to the farm, you
continue straight ahead to a stile to the left of a metal gate.
11. Cross the stile and continue
straight ahead with the wire fence on your right. On reaching the gate continue ahead - don’t
be tempted to go through the open gap - keep the hedgerow to your left, heading
for the ramshackle farm buildings. On
reaching the farm buildings swing slightly left and join track leading away
from the farm building. Walk steadily
uphill along the track.
12. On reaching the brow of the
hill on this track, you now have houses on your left. This is the
13. Continue slightly uphill,
over the brow of the hill down to the road. There is a school on your
left. This is the end of
14. On reaching the road, turn
right. Walk along the road past the
service station. Immediately after the
service station is the Boot and Shoe public house. This is your fourth
checkpoint.
5 - Boot & Shoe, Grassmoor, to the Elm Tree, Heath
1. On leaving the Boot &
Shoe, cross over the road to
2. On leaving the houses on
your right, the footpath ends. Cross
over the road and continue along the road on the opposite side of the road
heading towards a bridge. At the foot of
the bridge bear left onto a footpath which follows alongside the road. Keep the hedge to your right, continue
straight ahead.
3. After about 80 yards take a
right turn in the path, 90° right going under the bridge. Pass through a gate to the right of a metal
farm gate. Continue upwards along this
trail.
4. Bear slightly to the left
until you meet another track. Here bear
left. The path immediately splits - take
the left hand track “Five Pits Trail, Williamthorpe” walking with a small lake
on your right.
5. After a further ½ mile, the
track bears left towards a factory.
Continue along the track. Shortly
after, the path goes under a road bridge and continues to the left hand side of
the factory. To the left of the path
there are a couple more industrial units which are currently under construction
- they’ll be completed by the time of the Walk.
6. After 400 yards there is a
fork in the path. Take the right hand
fork. Continue again with industrial
units on your right. Pass a sign which
says “Caution Steep Slope” and the track bears left, to the left of a wooden
seat. The track bears right, comes down
across a footbridge, and crosses another path which says “Holmewood -
7. Continue straight ahead,
climbing back up the other side of a small valley. At the top of the hill the track bears right,
crosses another track. Continue straight
ahead along the Five Pits Trail, Holmewood.
8. Just before a footpath sign
by a bench, take a left hand fork in the path along a grass track which heads
towards the left hand side of the houses ahead.
The path bears left then right and then continues straight ahead towards
a road.
9. Continue along the track,
keeping the houses to your right. Cross
over the road and continue up the field opposite, keeping the hedge on your
right. Cross three stiles and then path
goes down the centre of a field into the
10. Join a lane. Continue down into the village. On reaching the road, bear left. Continue down the road passing the Old School
House on your left.
11. On reaching the
12. At the bend, follow the road
round to the left until you reach the Elm Tree Public House on your right.
This is your fifth checkpoint.
6 – The Elm Tree, Heath, to the Elm Tree, Scarcliffe
1. Turn left out of the pub car
park. After about 30 metres, at the bend
in the road, turn left down the public footpath at the side of Chestnut Cottage
- there’s a signpost on the tree. Drop
down to a metal gate and cross the stile to its left. Continue down to an open gate with a double
stile to your right. The road bends
right and then immediately left and crosses over the Heath bypass.
2. Over the bridge, carry
straight on with a pylon to your left - a very nice one - and the track turns
into a farm track. There is a view of
3. At the next field you come
to a gap in the hedge. Carry straight
on, hedge on your right, for about 10 yards and then across an open field
towards a stile in the fence opposite.
4. Cross the stile. Bear left towards the corner of the field,
with a wooden fence on your right, towards a copse. In the corner of the field cross the stile to
the right of a metal gate and go through a tunnel under the motorway. Carry straight on along the well-defined
footpath across the field opposite.
5. Carry on through to a gate
in the hedge opposite where the track bears left towards a stile. Cross the stile over a small footbridge. Go over the next stile and continue
diagonally across the field over a still well-defined footpath with
6. In the corner of the field,
turn right over a small footbridge and take the right hand of the two paths
going diagonally across the field towards a stile in the fence opposite. Cross over the stile, through a few bushes to
a fence opposite and over another stile.
7. Bear slightly left to a
stile in the fence opposite. Cross over
this stile, across a dismantled railway line to a stile opposite. Here walk up the field with hedge on your
left. Keep straight on with the hedge on
your left.
8. Where the hedge bears away
90° to the left, carry straight on across the field towards the far corner on
the left. Do no go through the gate but
where the hedge rejoins the track in front of you carry straight on, again
keeping the hedge to your left towards the corner of the field.
9. At the corner of the field,
the track bears left through the trees and then right again into another
field. Head straight across the centre
of the field to the far corner, past a small grassy knoll. The grassy knoll is covering a manhole cover
- there is another one further up the hill and you should be able to see a
stile in the fence in the trees opposite.
10. Cross over the stile, turn
right at the tree and continue following the waymarked sign to the top right
corner of the field. Cross the stile to
the right of a small gate and bear left up a track towards Palterton
11. On reaching a track, carry
straight across, bearing slightly left up a footpath, climbing very steeply
uphill. On reaching the road have a
breather!
12. Bear right along the road
into the village. Where the road bends
left follow the road - do not go back down the hill or you will regret it -
following the signpost to Scarcliffe 1, Glapwell 1.
13. Carry on through the
village, past
14. Carry on along the track for
about ¾ mile until you meet a road, carry straight across climbing up through a
wood. Continue through the wood
following the well-defined path. The
path bears left and comes out of the trees onto a lane through a metal
gate. Bear left along the lane towards
Scarcliffe with the church in the distance to your right.
15. Half a mile down the lane,
just before reaching some houses, there is a footpath sign to your right which
cuts across the field and over to a stile opposite. Take this footpath.
16. Cross over the stile
opposite and follow a footpath with a hedge on your right and a field on your
left, bearing slightly right, keeping the houses to your left towards a gate in
the corner.
17. Bear left through the gate,
along a track onto a road in the
7 - The Elm Tree, Scarcliffe, to Whaley
1. On leaving the Elm Tree
retrace your steps for 25 yards or so and turn left up a track. Immediately on your left is a house called
“The Birches”. Continue along the track.
2. After 20 yards you reach a
stone slab footpath between a lawned area with walls on either side. Continue across a stile straight ahead. Do not take the stile to the right. This leads into a field. Cross over the stile and continue around the
edge of the field with a hedge on your right.
As the path bears left the hedge is replaced by a wooden fence.
3. The path later turns right
over a stone bridge. Cross over the
bridge and then the path bears left along the edge of a field with a hedge on
your left. 50 yards further the path
leaves the field and becomes hedged on both sides and enters into a wood.
4. Cross over a narrow wooden
footbridge and continue straight ahead into the wood. The path climbs upwards into the wood and
meets a track. Bear right along the
track. Where the path forks take the
left hand fork, sweeping round to your left.
You are now on the
5. The path passes a metal gate
in front of a clearing on your right and then continues deeper into the wood
with pine trees on your right. The path
drops down into a denser piece of wood and turns from a track into a path and
is waymarked again with the
6. Passing through a dip, the
footpath bears slightly to your left, and is again waymarked
7. The path climbs upwards to
meet a hedged field on your right, still trees on your left.
8. ¼ mile further on the path
swings left, drops down and then swings right.
Again continue with the wood on your left and hedge on your right with
fields behind the hedge.
9. The path passes to the right
hand side of a wooden gate and comes to the main road. Leave the wood and bear right along the road
towards the Devonshire Arms.
10. Continue down the road past
the pub on your right and the Old School
House. Drop left down, just before a
road junction sign with a footpath waymarked “The Archaeological Way”.
11. At the church turn left
taking a footpath before the church keeping the church on your right. At the end of the churchyard cross over a
stile continuing over the
12. Cross over a small
footbridge and continue up the next field to a stile onto a road. Here turn right and walk down the road. On reaching the sharp right hand bend in the
road take a track to your left, continuing along the
13. Continue along the lane,
ignoring the footpath to Whaley Thorns to your right. Your are now heading towards a wood on the
14. Enter the wood following the
15. On reaching the track
crossing your path continue straight ahead, again following a waymarked sign
for the
16. In 50 yards you leave the
wood, cross over a field, straight ahead following the
17. At the end of the lane bear
right, across the stream up to the main road.
Turn left and on reaching the pub (Black Horse) turn right at the
junction and your checkpoint is in the farmyard immediately after the pub. This is your seventh checkpoint.
8 - Whaley to the Elm Tree,
Elmton
1. On leaving the farmyard turn
right and continue up the road, past the football pitch to Whaley Common. At the road junction, turn right and in 50
yards turn left along the lane. This is
still the
2. Shortly after Frithwood
Cottages the track bears 90° right then almost immediately 90° left. Continue along the main track, which shortly
turns into a metallised road. After
approximately ½ mile take the footpath on the left immediately after a double
gate also on your left.
3. The path goes across a field
heading towards two large trees. At the
far end of this field pass through the gate and continue straight ahead across
two further fields heading towards a farm.
These footpaths are sign posted Elmton Green, the sign being attached to
the large tree.
4. On reaching the farm pass
through the stile turn right on to the track and walk down this track keeping
the farm on your left.
5.
On reaching the road turn left and walk along the side of the road into
the
9 - Elm Tree, Elmton, to the
1. On leaving the pub car park
turn left down the road towards the church.
Carry on downhill, past the church with the church on your right. At the corner, sharp left hand bend in the
road, take the track straight on.
2. The track runs for about a
mile towards Clowne past some old houses on your right. Carry on along the track.
3. Shortly after a farmhouse,
the track drops down to the right into a dip and you come to a fork in the
path. Take the right hand fork.
4. About ½ mile further you
come to the edge of the
5. Continue along the road past
the edge of Clowne following the
6. At the end of a metal
barrier on the opposite side of the road you will see a footpath sign crossing
the wall. Cross the road, over on to the
footpath, still following the
7. On crossing the stile, go
diagonally across the field following the well marked footpath - it is still
the
8. At the end of the field,
turn left through a gap between the wall and hedge. Walk for 15 yards and see a stile on your
right. Cross over and continue along the
9. At the corner of the field
bear right, following the signs for the
10. Go through the gap in the
wall in the middle of the field and across to a stile. Cross over the road and bear left into
Bakestone Moor. The road bends right as
you reach the first houses.
11. Carry on across