Hayfield

 June 30, 2021.

HAYFIELD, BOWDEN BRIDGE, KINDERSTONES, HILLHOUSES, BOOTH FARM, FARLANDS, THREE KNOLLS, RED BROOK, KINDER SUMMIT, KINDER LOW END, EDALE CROSS, STONYFORD, TUNSTEAD HOUSE, THE SPORTSMAN AT HAYFIELD

Distance: 8+ miles.

Difficulty: Moderately strenuous.

Weather: Cloudy but dry and warm with a gentle breeze.

Walkers: Peter Beal, Tom Cunliffe with Daisy, Hughie Hardiman, Alan Hart, John Jones, Chris Owen, Dean Taylor and Dave Willetts.

Apologies: Mickey Barrett (sore leg), Andy Blease (hols), Alastair Cairns (hols), George Dearsley (in Turkey), Mark Gibby, Julian Ross, George Whaites (too strenuous)

Leader: Beal. Diarist: Hart.

Starting point: Kinder Road, Hayfield, near The Sportsman Inn.

Starting time: 9.40am. Finishing time: 1.41pm.

We had been warned this walk would be an uphill struggle but that we would be rewarded with views to balance the phews as we climbed to the summit of the Kinder Plateau. So it proved as a gentle breeze and cloud cover gave us ideal walking conditions. The route prepared by Peter also eliminated most of the vertiginous ascents undertaken previously.

An added bonus was provided by a pair of curlews as we descended the ridge in the direction of South Head. They must have been nesting near our path and came across as concerned parents to warn us not to pose any threat. It gave us an unusual opportunity to see them at close quarters as they wheeled and called a few feet above our heads.

The lack of a pub en route ensured an early finish and a pleasant hour in the beer garden of The Sportsman Inn. Sadly Dean, who was suffering from sore toes and needed to remove his boots, was unable to join us. He missed a double burst of generosity by Hughie and Chris who each bought a round of seven drinks. This was above and beyond the call of duty.

Passing The “Sporty” on our left, we walked along Kinder Road beyond a row of cottages. Opposite, protected by posts, was a path down to a footbridge over the River Sett (4mins). We turned left with the river on our left and a caravan park campsite on our right.

After passing Bowden Bridge on our left (8mins) we reached a house called Kinderstones (12mins) and turned left. This brought us to a T-junction (26mins) where we turned right following a public footpath sign for Farlands. On our right beyond Farlands was a footpath sign for Stonyford (31mins) which we followed uphill.

We reached the crest of that hill at a wooden gate, where we turned right (52mins) and walked up a stony track. Just before we reached a wooden stile (59mins) we turned sharp left to begin our ascent of what are known as The Three Knolls. Apart from a short stretch of tough climbing we were rising steadily and enjoying spectacular views of the surrounding terrain.

                                  

Continuing uphill we kept a brisk pace as we headed for Kinder ridge. After pausing for Pietime at a group of convenient rocks (75mins) we continued along the well-trodden path until we reached a small cairn on our right (85mins).

We turned right along a lesser defined path which took us up to Kinder Ridge on the right of Red Brook (100mins)

At this point Peter switched from leading by memory to using an electronic device which will lead you to a previously plotted point (or cheating as navigational purists would describe it).

                                                   

His Garmin E-Trek dutifully led us half a mile from the ridge to a cairn which marks the true summit of Kinder at 2,088 feet (113mins)

                                       

From here we could see in the distance Grindslow Knoll, Lose Hill, Mam Tor, Rushup Edge, Brown Knoll, and in the middle distance the rock formations of Woolpacks and Pym Chair.

We also spotted our next landmark, Kinder Low End, which has a Trig Point despite standing at a meagre 2,077 feet above sea level. Having seen not a living soul since leaving Hayfield we now encountered several groups of hikers (122mins) with Tom taking a photo of a group of ten soldiers on manoeuvres.

We now started our descent (130mins) along a path which became flagged. At a fork we went left (150mins) and reached a junction (161mins). Turning right we immediately saw Edale Cross set back from the path on our right.

                                        

This medieval cross, believed to date from Saxon times, is protected as a monument of national importance under The Ancient Monuments Acts 1913-53.

Continuing our journey we stopped for lunch (165mins) overlooking a brook which babbled over rocks at Stonyford. We resumed by crossing first the shallow stream and then a wooden stile just beyond it on our right (168mins) to follow the path left signed for Hayfield.

We crossed a ladder stile (181mins) and then continued our descent through a series of wooden stiles marked with yellow arrows until we passed Tunstead House on our right (197mins). The route swung left and we carried straight on at crossroads (202mins) until we reached Bowden Bridge on our right (208mins).

We carried on with the River Sett on our right, passing the campsite on our left and the footbridge on our right which we had crossed earlier. At the next footbridge (213mins) we turned right, crossed it and climbed steeply back to Kinder Road directly opposite The Sporty (214mins)

Next week's walk will start at 9.30am from the end of Laneside Road, Lower Leighton, New Mills. To reach it go along the A6015 towards Hayfield from New Mills and turn right opposite the Hare and Hounds pub. Continue for just over a mile and park at the end of the lane.

The walk will take us over Lantern Pike with a livener at The Masons Arms, New Mills.

Happy wandering !

Map by Tom

                                                                   Pictures by John Jones

  

Meadow pipit at summit

Mermaid's Pool

Cloudberry, edible

Wanderers and cotton grass

Manchester

 

June 23, 2021.

MANCHESTER PICCADILLY, CANAL STREET, ROCHDALE CANAL, THE HACIENDA, BRIDGEWATER CANAL, OLD TRAFFORD FOOTBALL GROUND, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM NORTH, MEDIA CITY, THE KABANA IN THE NORTHERN QUARTER, THE MILLSTONE, THE UNICORN AND THE WALDORF

Distance: Four miles.

Difficulty: Easy.

Weather: Cloudy but dry.

Walkers: Andy Blease, Hughie Hardiman, Alan Hart, John Jones, Chris Owen, George Whaites, Dave Willetts.

Apologies: Mickey Barrett, Peter Beal (walking elsewhere), Alastair Cairns, Tom Cunliffe, George Dearsley (in Turkey), Mark Gibby (filial duties), Julian Ross, Paul Sidebotham (gone fishin'), Dean Taylor.

Leader: Owen. Diarist: Hart.

Starting point: Outside main entrance to Piccadilly Station.

Starting time: 10.02am. Finishing time: 3.30pm.

A meeting of the Wednesday Wanderers' caravanning club in the Lake District reduced our numbers for this walk through the urban landscape. Six of us assembled next to the war memorial outside the station's main entrance as JJ had missed his train. By the time he had reached the Imperial War Museum North, we had departed by tram back to Piccadilly and George had caught his bus home. So two of our walkers never actually saw each other.

The walk itself ran smoothly with Chris one of four wearing shorts as he led us along Canal Street, the gay heart of Manchester. At Princess Street we went down a flight of steps to reach The Rochdale Canal and walked west along the left bank.

In doing so we passed on our left the site of the former Hacienda nightclub, a famous venue which has hosted music legends such as Madonna, Tears For Fears, The Smiths and Happy Mondays in the 70s and 80s.

At the Barca restaurant we turned left to join the link with The Bridgewater Canal and proceeded along the left bank, passing the tram station at Pomona before leaving the waterway and skirting Old Trafford football ground, home of soccer giants Manchester United.

After passing its car park on our left we reached the Imperial War Museum North on our right, with a Russian tank parked outside.

In the 1990s the IWM began looking for a location outside south-east England to build a new showcase for its collections of memorabilia and displays. In 1997 world-renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, who was born in Lodz, Poland in 1946, was chosen to design the building. Inside visitors can learn the history of two world wars and more recent conflicts.

Because our leader was on a tight schedule having been warned he would be required later for school caretaker duties, we made a whirlwind tour before heading to the Media City stop for a tram back into Manchester. George left the company to catch a bus home.

From our disembarkation point in Piccadilly Gardens, we headed for the Northern Quarter to enjoy a variety of curries available in the cheap-and-cheerful surroundings of the Kabana.

Chris led us to the nearby Millstone where JJ finally joined us. After Chris left us for Macclesfield we dropped in to The Unicorn and The Waldorf for refreshment on the way back to the station.

Next week's walk will start at 9.35am from outside The Sportsman on Kinder Road, Hayfield. Peter has promised to lead us on a tough climb up the Kinder Plateau, calling at the rarely seen Trig Point at the summit before descending back to The Sportsman for refreshment. We expect to reach the pub around 2.20pm.

Happy wandering !

Curbar

June 16, 2021.

CURBAR, BASLOW, CALVER, CURBAR WOOD, BEE WOOD, GRINDLEFORD, FROGGATT WOOD, HAY WOOD, THE GROUSE AT NETHER PADLEY, FROGGATT EDGE, FROGGATT PINNACLE AND CURBAR

Distance: 10+ miles.

Difficulty: Strenuous.

Weather: Hot and sunny.

Walkers: Mickey Barrett, Peter Beal, Tom Cunliffe with Daisy, Hughie Hardiman, Alan Hart, John Jones, Chris Owen, Dean Taylor, George Whaites and Dave Willetts.

Apologies: Andy Blease (Anglesey), Alastair Cairns (w*^king), Mark Gibby (monitoring Royal Ascot)

Leader: Cunliffe. Diarist: Hart.

Starting point: Lay-bys towards the top of Curbar Lane, Curbar, Derbyshire.

Starting time: 10.03am. Finishing time: 3.33pm.

Reaching the starting point for this walk involved one of our longest forays into the Derbyshire Dales. But all agreed the views were worth the journey. After the exertions of last week we were put through our paces again. This time we had to contend with a blazing sun and hardly a breath of wind.

After a gruelling climb to our pub stop we were able to relax in the beer garden before our final push along Froggatt Edge where we had one last lingering look at the spectacular scenery before we returned to our cars below it.

 

 

From the lay-bys we crossed the road to follow a wooden public footpath sign downhill and through two wooden gates. Where the path swung right we headed down to our left to cross a ladder stile (22mins). In the fields below cows and their calves were sunbathing in a meadow.

After going through a wooden gate we reached a lane and turned right (31mins). At Selborne Cottage we turned right up Gorse Bank Lane (35mins). The route took us through a farmyard (48mins). Beyond it we went through a gap stile and an open gateway as we headed uphill.

After going through one wooden gate ahead we went through another wooden gate on our left marked with a yellow arrow (55mins). Our route took us through a series of gates until we went through a wood and emerged on a lane, where we turned left (67mins)

On a distant hillside a staunch royalist had planted a living memorial in foliage to our long-reigning queen.

We crossed a road, passing a house called Crifters on our right. It is my sad duty to report that at this stage there was some indiscipline in the ranks. At the front Chris had set a brisk pace but missed a turning on the right marked by a partially hidden wooden footpath sign.

Dave and Dean had taken the correct path and temporarily vanished into a field. Meanwhile JJ and George had become detached at the rear of the group. Mercifully the phone connections were good and we were able to reassemble after turning right at the sign and passing a play area before pausing for a late Pietime (82mins) on a handy pile of rocks.

Resuming we headed towards a drystone wall, turning left 20 yards before we reached it and going through a wooden gate (84mins). The path on our left then took us into Curbar Wood.

At some stage, after passing through two ancient gates, this became Bee Wood. After heading left over a stone step stile we reached a main road (117mins). Here we turned right for 150 yards until, opposite Woodstone House, we crossed the road and turned sharply left down a gravel track. After 50 yards we turned right into Froggatt Wood and used stepping stones to cross a stream (132mins)

Following a yellow arrow on our right (143mins) we crossed duckboards (147mins) and reached a diverted path to the Grouse Inn and Haywood House (150mins). The diversion took us through two wooden gates. On our right was a mansion and on the left was a bridge over a stream. We crossed the stream and turned immediately right uphill for the challenging walk through Hay Wood.

In doing so your diarist became the third Wednesday Wanderer – but not the last - to crack his head on the same overhanging branch.

As we climbed ever upwards we finally reached two wooden gates which enabled us to leave the wood and enter a field. On the far side of it was the welcome sight of The Grouse (183mins), where we enjoyed pints of Wainwrights' cask bitter for £4 in the sunny beer garden.

We were also treated to a round of drinks by Mickey, who was celebrating the 71^st anniversary of his birth. We wish him many happy returns.

Suitably refreshed we left the pub and turned right along the main road before crossing it and following a sign for Froggatt Edge (192mins). As we walked there were magnificent views of the valley below. We stopped for lunch (216mins) at a rock formation including a distinctive landmark called Froggatt Pinnacle.

After lunch we continued along the path and went through a wooden gate before turning right to follow a sign for Baslow Edge (246mins)

After 50 yards we turned sharp right to reach a road. We turned right downhill (248mins) and reached our cars on the right (253mins)

Next week's walk will start at 10am from the war memorial statue outside the main entrance to Piccadilly railway station. We intend to explore the city's points of interest including several historic pubs and a much-loved curry house.

Happy wandering !

pictures and map by Tom

 

Low Leighton

 

June 9, 2021.

LOW LEIGHTON, BIG STONE, PEEP-O-DAY, MOUNT FAMINE, SOUTH

HEAD, COLDWELL CLOUGH, TUNSTEAD HOUSE, BOWDEN BRIDGE, THE SPORTSMAN AT HAYFIELD, SETT VALLEY TRAIL, BIRCH VALE, OLLERSETT MOOR, LANESIDE ROAD

Distance: 10 miles.

Difficulty: Strenuous.

Weather: Dry, Warm and Sunny with Gentle Breeze.

Walkers: Mickey Barrett, Alastair Cairns, Tom Cunliffe with Daisy, Hughie Hardiman, Alan Hart, John Jones, Chris Owen, Dean Taylor and Dave Willetts.

Apologies: Peter Beal, Andy Blease, George Dearsley (in Turkey), Mark Gibby (swollen leg)

Leader: Jones. Diarist: Hart.

Starting point: End of Laneside Road, Low Leighton, New Mills.

Starting time: 9.38am. Finishing time: 2.52pm.

This tough walk was not for the faint-hearted as we endured four steep climbs in wonderful warm weather. But we were rewarded with spectacular scenery through The Dark Peak with its hills providing panoramic views for many a mile.

We also enjoyed a friendly welcome and excellent beer in one of our favourite country pubs. On the nature front we heard the familiar sound of a cuckoo – a rare treat these days – and spotted four alpacas in a Derbyshire field far from their native home in South America.

Mickey, recovering from a hamstring injury, made a happy return to the fold but this was balanced by the loss of Mark, who failed a late fitness test on a swollen and painful leg.

From the attractive starting point (above) we followed a green public footpath sign uphill. The path took us through three wooden gates. At the final one (19mins) we reached a wooden footpath sign and carried straight on uphill. We crossed a wooden stile and reached a cluster of boulders, with the largest known rather unimaginatively as Big Stone (27mins)

After admiring the view and gathering our collective breath we started the steep descent from the left of Big Stone. It got gradually easier as we reached a well-trodden path leading down to an even wider path where we headed left as we continued downhill through a wooden gate to reach the house called Peep-o-Day on our left (50mins).

Beyond this we continued for 50 yards to the A624 Glossop-Chapel road and turned left. After another 50 yards we turned right, crossing the road and going up a path with Hayfield View on our left (52mins). We soon dog-legged right and left to continue uphill (58mins)

A
s we went through two wooden gates, keeping right after the second, we crossed a ladder stile (62mins) and eventually reached the 1,552 summit of Mount Famine for Pietime (77mins)

It is believed Mount Famine was given its name because a number of Enclosure Acts were passed between 1750 and 1850 which allocated common land and moorlands to private landowners. They fenced and leased these fields to tenant farmers. Some of the land was of poor quality for planting or grazing and the families of some farmers went hungry. Their struggles were immortalised in place names like Mount Famine. Other notable examples in the English countryside include Starvation Hill, Famish Acre and Mount Misery.

Continuing our journey from the rocky outcrop where we had stopped, we crossed a wooden stile (78mins) and walked down to a gravel track (82mins). We turned left and soon took a path on our right (83mins) going uphill to South Head. We reached its 1,617 feet summit (89mins) which was marked by a cairn.

We descended on the far side, reaching a rocky path and turning left (93mins). At a public footpath sign we followed the path towards Hayfield via Coldwell Clough (95mins). After crossing a wooden footbridge we went through a wooden gate to turn left (112mins)

We passed a set of farm buildings (116mins) and carried on until we reached Blackshaws Farm on our right (124mins). The farmhouse, built in 1804, is distinctive because of the sculpture of a stone monkey on its roof. It is believed this was to remind the farmer's son of the responsibility of paying a mortgage (a monkey on his back)

Just beyond the farm entrance door we went right through a gate to enter the farmyard, exited it via a stone step stile (129mins) then crossed a wooden stile to turn left along a gravel track (131mins). We swung left before a farmhouse and then went right over a wooden stile just before we reached stables (133mins)

As we followed the path we heard a cuckoo in the woods to our left. We crossed a stone step stile (138mins) and reached Tunstead House (140mins). We turned left following the road downhill and carrying straight ahead at crossroads (146mins). Crossing Bowden Bridge on our right where the River Kinder becomes the River Sett, we turned left (150mins) and walked along Kinder Road until we reached The Sportsman on our right (156mins) Here we enjoyed Golden cask bitter in the sunny beer garden at £4-10 a pint.

Resuming our journey we crossed the road opposite the pub's main door and followed a public footpath sign directing us down steps to cross a bridge over the Sett. On the far side we turned right and walked into the centre of Hayfield, crossing a road to enter Fishers Bridge (166mins)

We crossed the A624 heading right then left into New Mills Road and passing Kinder Lodge on our right. After the pub we turned right and stopped for lunch at the former Hayfield railway station, now a bus terminus, at the picnic tables ON THE LEFT provided for the start of The Sett Valley Trail (169mins)

Continuing we joined the trail on the former trackbed leading to New Mills. As we did so we passed a field containing four alpacas on our left.

We left thr trail on our left at Birch Vale, crossing the A6015 and heading uphill on a lane to the left of the former pub called The Grouse (188mins). Our fourth relentless climb of the day took us to a wooden gate (203mins) where we turned right on to Ollersett Moor.

After crossing two wooden stiles and a ladder stile (220mins) we reached a lane where we turned left. This brought us to Laneside Road and our cars on the right (229mins)

Next week's walk will start at 10am from Curbar, which is off the A623 between Stoney Middleton and Baslow. As you approach from the northwest through the village of Calver turn left after The Bridge Inn and immediately left again uphill. At the top of this hill there are lay-bys to the right and left where we will assemble.

Happy wandering !

Pictures by John Jones

                                                          Lambing stress coat-loss..

2 Attached Images

 sheep shade

Dragon's back  on Mount Famine ridge.

Wooden, rainbow artwork Sett Valley trail.

Little Hayfield

June 2, 2021.

PARK HALL WOODS, MIDDLE MOOR, THE KNOTT, MILL HILL, PLANE CRASH SITE, BURNT HILL, HOLLINWORTH HEAD, MATLEY MOOR, KINGS CLOUGH HEAD FARM, LITTLE MILL INN AT ROWARTH, HARTHILL, BLACKSHAW FARM, CLOUGH MILL APARTMENTS, THE LANTERN PIKE INN AT LITTLE HAYFIELD

Distance: 9 miles.

Difficulty: Moderate.

Weather: Warm and sunny with a gentle breeze.

Walkers: Peter Beal, Andy Blease, Tom Cunliffe with Daisy, Mark Gibby, Hughie Hardiman, Alan Hart, John Jones, Chris Owen, Dean Taylor with Tommy, Dave Willetts.

Apologies: Alastair Cairns (in Wensleydale), George Dearsley (in Turkey), Mickey Barrett and Julian Ross (domestic duties)

Leader: Beal. Diarist: Hart.

Starting point: Outside Park Hall Woods on A624 at Little Hayfield, Derbyshire.

Starting time: 9.33am. Finishing time: 2.27pm.

On a glorious early summer's day a new recruit made his debut for the Wednesday Wanderers. It was an impressive performance by a one-year old as Tommy Taylor showed both his fitness and friendliness.

The only time he let himself down was when he slid under the table during our pub stop and fell fast asleep. But he's not the first wanderer by a long chalk to do that.

Peter led us on this walk which included a visit to the site of a wartime plane crash and an historic watermill which has been converted into a pub. The route took us through some superb scenery around the foothills of the Kinder range.

Before setting off Dean introduced us to Tommy, a brindle Italian mastiff, who should not be confused with the legendary Manchester United and England footballer Tommy Taylor.

Born in Barnsley, Taylor (1932-58) was one of six children who left school at 15 to work at the local colliery. He played for his pit team until in 1949 he signed for Barnsley, making his debut at 18. He continued to play for the 2^nd Division team during his National Service with the British Army until he was signed for Manchester United in 1953 by Matt Busby for £29,999.

Taylor became a top scorer for United and netted 16 times in 19 games for England. In 1957 Busby rejected a £65,000 offer for him from Inter Milan. Tragically the following year he was one of eight United players killed in the Munich air crash.

The canine Tommy Taylor seemed slightly overwhelmed by the large number of strangers who greeted him as we walked into Park Hall Woods, but he was soon showing affection, especially at Pietime !

From the woods we went through a gate to enter Middle Moor and turned immediately left to ford a stream (7mins). The path took us along the south-east flank of The Knot, passing a series of grouse butts before we started the climb up Mill Hill.

                                         

                                    

When we reached a cairn (63mins) we turned left along flagstones until we reached plane wreckage on our right (69mins) and stopped for Pietime.

The remains of this US Liberator which crashed near the 1,785 summit of Mill Hill, in October, 1944, have been steadily reduced over the years by souvenir hunters. There is little left to remind us of the day when pilot Creighton Houpt and his navigator Jerome Najvar of the US 310^th Ferry Squadron 27^th Air Transport Group failed to negotiate the Peak District hills as they moved the aircraft from Burtonwood to Hardwick. They both walked away relatively unscathed.

Resuming we stopped to study the memorial stone for Ken Blakeman (1946-2016), chairman of Kinder Mountain Rescue, who died here aged 59 while attempting to save lives.

We crossed Burnt Hill and continued with the town of Glossop below on our right until we reached the A624 (103mins). We crossed and headed uphill. When we reached a gravel track on our left opposite a wooden public footpath sign on our right (109mins) we turned left and headed uphill to a fork where we went right (114mins)

As we approached a farmhouse we turned right at a public footpath sign (116mins) and went to the right of the farmhouse before crossing a stone step stile and heading left. The path took us over two wooden stiles and through a gate to reach a road (124mins)

We turned immediately left through a wooden gate with a yellow arrow and followed the path to our right. We exited the moor and turned right down a track until we reached tarmac (135mins). Here we turned left before passing The Kings Clough Head Farm on our right (137mins)

The road continued but where it swung left (139mins) we carried straight ahead along a track where we forded a stream (150mins) and took a left fork where the paths divided (142mins). Ignoring the first wooden footbridge on our left we continued to the second which we crossed (150mins)

We then forded the stream again and went left over a wooden stile (151mins) to head through a wooden gate and over a wooden stile (153mins). We emerged to the right of a red phone box where we turned left and after 20 yards turned right along a footpath. Another wooden gate brought us out in view of The Little Mill, its extensive beer garden, play area, car park, giant water-powered mill wheel, Pullman dining carriage and children's play area (156mins)

The Shipyard cask bitter was in good form but at £4-60 a pint it seemed to indicate that clients were paying top whack for all the amenities. Fair enough.

Our return journey involved retracing our footsteps to the red phone box where we carried straight on instead of turning right. Soon after we swung right at the end of a row of cottages (160mins) and followed a path across Matley Moor.

The route took us down the left shoulder of Lantern Pike, crossing one wooden stile (195mins) and then two in quick succession (217 and 218 mins) to reach the end of a road by a cottage on our right.

We turned left into a field and headed steeply downhill and crossed a footbridge over a stream to pass the former Clough Mill on our left. (It was here that blogspotter George had a penthouse apartment and became a Wednesday Wanderers as well as a customer of Tom's in the Lantern Pike Inn)

From the mill we climbed past the former rented cottage homes of Coronation Street creator Tony Warren and original actress Pat Phoenix, who played Elsie Tanner. They too used to drink in The Lantern Pike, as did your diarist and Corrie's executive producer Bill Podmore.

It was to the beer garden of this hostelry that we climbed up the hill for further refreshment (228mins)

Next week's walk will start at 9.30am from the end of Laneside Road, Low Leighton, New Mills. To reach it take the A6015 road off the A6 towards Hayfield from New Mills, turning right into Laneside Road opposite the Hare and Hounds pub on your left. Those approaching from Hayfield through Birch Vale should turn left at the pub on your right. Drive as far as you can for a mile to the end of Laneside Road.

PS From John Jones Next week's wander is as follows. 09.30 time, Booze (Arranged ) at Sportsman on Kinder Road, arr' tie 12 -12.30 hrs. All  who enter pub ,Must wear a mask and give details for tracking purposes. meet point up the hill at top of Laneside, New Mills. at SK22 4LU.Driving n/east turn right opp' Hare and Hounds, up lane until very end of tarmac. Walk  Chinley Churn, Blackshaws., pub then Hayfiled and Birch Vale return,,10 miles plus. 

Happy wandering !