April 8th 2026
CURBAR GAP, BASLOW EDGE, WELLINGTON’S MONUMENT, BIG MOOR, WHITE EDGE, FROGGATT EDGE, CURBAR EDGE, BRIDGE INN.
Distance: 8 miles Ascent/descent: 1,080ft
Difficulty: Easy
Weather: Bright
Walkers , Steve Brearley Mike Cassini, Mark Enright. Hughie Hardiman, Stuart Kitchen, Greg Owen, Keith Welsh Simon Williams Cliff Worthington
Alternative Walkers: Jock and Keiran Rooney with Millie,-
Leader: Mike Cassini. Diarist: Mike Cassini
Starting point: Clodhall Lane Curbar Gap
Starting time: 9.53am. Finishing time: 1.35.pm.
In the past few weeks, we have had all extremes of weather and fortunately this week it was the hottest day of the year so far, with perfect walking weather on a perfect scenic walking route. Perhaps the only issue was that it was Easter week and there were particularly large numbers of walkers about.
There are a number of detailed notes from previous walks on this route Alan Hart’s and Pete Beal’s originals up to June last year, so the route was easy to follow, excepting having to ignore the Grouse pub on the way past and stopping afterwards at the bottom of the hill at the Bridge Inn , drinking in the beer garden on a glorious afternoon.
Previous notes detail the walk as 4 edges when it could really be 5 – Baslow Edge, towards the Wellington monument, although we were not at the edge, Blackstone Edge past the monument and then at right angles to this, White Edge. Between these two is Greg’s Bridge where, following a muddy path, a rudimentary bridge caused a potentially unpleasant fall. Fortunately, Greg was able to continue on the walk negotiating the hazardous path at the end of White Edge and at the end of the walk along Froggatt and Curbar Edge, when for no particular good reason I took the law into my own feet and walked over Curbar down a not well marked pathleading directly to the car park! In my defence I knew there was a path somewhere and I didn’t want to end up below the car park and have to walk a couple of hundred yards up the hill as we did last time.
We then got in the cars and met Jock and Kieran in the beer Garden with Milly and a very friendly New Zealand Huntaway (dog!)
Next week hopefully with Dean or without we will meet at the Sportsman in Hayfield to walk probably up the Dragons’ back meet at 9:40 SK22 2LE.
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