Goyt Valley 25 Jan 2009

Drove to the Goyt Valley and followed the same route that I took with Paul Chandler, Ray, Peter, Margaret and Niki back in September. The boggy bit was particularly wet and unpleasant, but we soon arrived at the 'reconstructed' bridge at the southern end of the reservoir, where we stopped for a bite to eat.

We followed the road back to the car park in the end, which I was quite grateful for as I seem to remember it's quite a trek up to Errwood Hall, the family graveyard and the folly.

We met Jess along the road and had a chat with her for ten minutes, then continued to the car park. Headed back to the cafe in Monyash for sausage, egg and chips... yum.

Derwent Edge

Paul suggested this walk the previous weekend, but I wimped out, saying that 10.25 miles was a bit too far. Having managed 7.5 miles the previous weekend, I decided that maybe it was time to go for it.

The great thing about this walk is that you follow a valley up from Derwent Water and wind your way eventually up onto Back Tor (at about the midway point). From there it's along Derwent Edge and then back down to the reservoirs.

Offerton Moor

After some debate about a walk along Derwent Edge, I suggested that we do a walk of around 7.5 miles from Hathersage. The walk took us out of the town to the south, to Leadmill Bridge, across the fields to Callow Farm and Highlow Hall and along the road to Oaks Farm. From there we climbed up onto the open moor of Offerton Moor.

The path continued to climb steadily around to Shatton Edge and then we joined Shatton Lane, which we followed back down past the BBC mast and back into the fields. This spat us out on the road between Offerton Hall and Offerton House and we then went back into the fields down to the River Derwent. This we crossed on a series of large stone blocks before heading across the fields and back to Hathersage.

Hollinsclough & Chrome Hill

Woke to freezing fog and decided to head out for a walk. We parked in Hollinsclough and started dropping down across the fields and almost immediately went the wrong way... twice! We sussed out where we were and continued along the valley to Sheepwash Bridge. From there we headed up the valley and then across the fields to Chrome Hill.

By that time we were back in the fog and it was quite eerie up on the top. Once we reached the bottom it wasn't far back to Hollinsclough and the car.