Walks

The walk starts at 10am at Curbar Gap car park ( SK262747) , all day parking fee £6, but free for National Trust members. 

Nearest postcode  S32 3YR brings you to Bar Road on the hill up to the  car park after left turn off A623 at Calver.

Directions to the start: Make your way to Whaley Bridge and take the A6 Chapel- en- le- Frith bypass. Turn left onto the A623 and continue through Stoney Middleton to Calver. Just past the Derbyshire Craft Centre ( on the left)  turn left, signed Froggatt and Curbar. In a few metres bear right up Curbar Lane towards Curbar village, then onto Bar Road.  Follow the steep road uphill for about a mile, passing laybys on the left. At the top of the hill turn left into Curbar Gap car park.

Walk description:  This is a very scenic walk on undulating moorland paths and estate tracks. The route follows White Edge, Longshaw Estate, the Grouse Inn, Froggatt Edge and Curbar Edge.  Our lunch stop will be at Longshaw, where there are toilets, picnic tables and a walled garden with benches.

This is an easy / moderate 6.5 mile walk, with a total ascent of 1000 feet.

Meet at 10 a.m. at Poynton Coppice car park, Higher Poynton. Nearest postcode SK12 1UE. (More parking along the adjacent road)

Directions to the start: Go to Poynton, along Park Lane. At Y junction carry straight on up Coppice Road, turning right at the end of the road on to Shrigley Road. The car park is on the right just before the next bend.

Walk details: We walk past Throstlenest Farm into Lyme Park, along the Gritstone Trail to Knightslow Wood. We then walk up and across Park Moor leaving the park by Moorside Lane. Then down past Birchencliff, across fields to the canal.

The walk starts at 10 am at the car park by Lamaload Reservoir.

Directions to the start:   own route to Macclesfield, take the Buxton Road at Arighi Bianchi, keep to the main road, not using the old routes. After about 4 miles look for a left turn signposted Saltersford and Goyt Valley. Take this side road, ignoring the bad road surface and after about 1.2 miles turn left into the car park at Lamaload.

WARNING:   be careful about using a post code for Lamaload, as this led me to the Water works on the other side with no direct road connection.

The walk goes across Redmoor to Thursbitch and then climbs to Shining Torr, along the ridge to Pyms Chair, returning via the Works at Lamaload and to the car park.

The walk starts at 10am in Macclesfield Forest at the parking spaces by Ridgegate Reservoir just past the Leather Smithy pub grid reference SJ953 715. Post code SK11 0NE.

Please make sure you park in the marked bays to avoid any risk of a fine.

Directions to the start: go to Macclesfield, southwards  past Arighi Bianchi on the Leek road. After about a mile, at the traffic lights, bear left towards Langley and Sutton, under canal bridge, keep bearing left through Langley along Clarke Lane to the Leather Smithy.

The walk goes back along Clarke Lane and then along the side of the reservoir, climbing up to Walker Barn, along Charity Lane and into Macclesfield Forest, to Forest Chapel, Standing Stone Car park, descending towards Trentabank and back to the start.

At Forest Chapel we will look at the water flows into the Rivers Bollin, Dean and Wildboarclough.

The walk starts at 10am Minninglow Peak Park car park. SK 194581 Post code DE4 2PN

This is a pay and display car park, card payment costing £6.60 for the day.

Directions: From Buxton take A515 continuing for 8 miles after the High Peak Bookshop. Turn left at large garage at Newhaven onto A5012. In two miles you enter Pikehall. Turn right onto Parwich Lane ,continue for 7 miles to the Minninglow picnic area and car park. Some SatNavs take you beyond Pikehall turning right into Moulridge Lane and on to the car park.

The walk: Leaving Minninglow we head to Pikehall and on to the tree lined secluded Gratton Dale and the grassy Long Dale. The Dales provide views across the lower White Peak. We follow field tracks, farm tracks, back lanes, returning via the High Peak Trail.

This is a repeat of a walk I led last year with only a few members.

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The walk starts at 10am from an informal layby on Mudhurst Lane about 200 metres before the entrance to the High Peak school. Post code for the School SK12 2AP

Directions to the start:   Take A555 and then A6 towards Buxton. In the middle of Disley, turn right at the traffic lights on to Buxton Old Road, after about 1km, turn right on to Mudhurst Lane for about 1km to the lay by on left. If you reach the school entrance you have gone too far and need to retrace your steps.

The walk goes into Lyme Park,through East Lodge to Higher Disley, descending to Furness Vale returning over Hawkhurst Head to the start.

I led this walk a couple of months ago but it was missed by some members so I am repeating it.

This is a 6 mile fairly easy walk except for the ascent up to White Nancy. Total ascent of 850 feet.

The walk starts at 10am from Clough Bank car park Grimshaw Lane Bollington. Nearest Post code SK10 5NY.

Directions to the start: Make your way to Bollington along the A523 and B5090. On entering Bollington, turn onto Grimshaw Lane. The turning is directly opposite the Tesco Express. Before the canal and before Adelphi Mill entrance take the right turn into Clough Bank and the car park is on the right. This is a free car park.

Walk description: The walk goes along the canal for a short way and then through Kerridge village and up to White Nancy, going up the easiest way, up steps through the wood. We walk along Kerridge Ridge to Higher Hurdsfield, along lanes to Swanscoe Hall and then through fields back to the car park.

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