A couple of buses (through an interminable collection of road works) took us to the Shady Oak bus stop in Fernilee (twixt Whaley Bridge and Buxton). From there, we walked up around Ladder Hill, down to the valley below Combs reservoir and up the other side for lunch atop Eccles Pike. Continue reading
This was an extra walk, scheduled for a weekend to accomodate lives troubled by work. We took a bus to New Mills and walked around the flanks of Black Hill and into the fringes of Lyme Park, down past the reservoirs and up to Disley Golf course, followed by field paths (and a short, busy stretch of towpath) back to Marple. Continue reading
An Indian Summer walk on a very warm 15th of September. John led us from Chinley to Hayfield via a section of the Peak Forest Tramway (the line that brought quarried limestone to the canal at Buxworth for transport to Oldknow’s lime kilns in Marple), the hamlet of Wash, and the col between South Head and Mount Famine before dropping down to Peep o’ Day and field paths to Hayfield. Continue reading
A walk of a thousand miles starts with a single step. This walk, of around seven miles, started in Whaley Bridge with a scurry through the Tesco car park. Thence a short stretch of canal, and up onto Whaley Moor, with an apogee somewhere around Bow Stones, on the edge of Lyme Park. Continue reading
Four little choristers
On a walking spree,
One had to go to school,
Then there were three…
Roger led the walk from Shiloh Road to Lantern Pike. Here are “the lads” at the top.
