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DISTANCE: 3¾ miles (6km) TIME: 2 hours START/END: SK267801 Longshaw Estate car park TERRAIN: Moderate; 600ft (183m) descent and ascent MAPS: |
From the Longshaw Estate car park, turn right and follow the woodland path to the estate lodge at the side of the B6521 Frogatt road.
Cross the road and follow the path down to Burbage Brook.
Cross the stream by a log bridge and turn left, downstream. ½ mile (800m).
Go ahead at the path junction, walking down a steep hill through ancient oak woods lining Padley Gorge. Try to keep the stream in sight below and on the left, ignoring side turnings along this rocky woodland path. 1 mile (1.6km).
View of Padley Gorge. This wild forested ravine is a reminder of what our native countryside once looked like.
Go through a kissing gate and down to a rough lane past groups of houses. Turn left at the bottom and follow the lane over the railway bridge to a café. ¼ mile (400m).
The mill, which is now a private house, relied upon Burbage Brook to power its wheels.
Turn left immediately beyond the café, through a kissing gate and climb up to the road.
Turn left on to the road and, after a few yards, turn right over a low stone stile. Climb the steep woodland path, following the rocky course of the stream.
Viewpoint. Look back across the intervening woodland towards the Derwent Valley with Eyam Moor in the distance.
After emerging from the woods, turn left uphill beside a stream tributary, eventually joining a worn flagged path. ½ mile (800m).
Viewpoint. The Upper Derwent stretches into the distance. Kinder Scout, Win Hill and Bleaklow form the final backcloth.
Climb a stone stile and turn left along the woodland drive. Follow this level track in and out of planted woodland and open grassland dotted by clumps of semi-wild rhododendrons. 1 mile (1.6km).
Go through a narrow gate to the left of Longshaw Lodge, follow the path around the foot of the ‘ha-ha’ back to the car park.
Viewpoint. In May or June, pink and crimson flowers of the rhododendron bushes make an attractive foreground to the view.
Longshaw Lodge. This Victorian hunting lodge and the surrounding estate is now owned by the National Trust.
The low wall is a ‘ha-ha’. Normally a ‘ha-ha’ is topped by a formal lawn which prevents animals from entering the garden, leaving the view from the house unspoiled.
