I caught the bus from Sheffield to Foolow and then headed south down the road towards the hamlet of Housley and joined the track to Eyam known as Tideswell Lane.
I only just entered Eyam at its western extremity but then headed south again down to the road in Middleton Dale. On the Ordnance Survey map it's shown as a single path going down through the old quarry workings but there are actually several paths branching off in all directions. The route I chose was difficult, steep steps, loose boulders and overgrown in places...maybe they were all just as bad though.
I expected only needing to cross the road and then head up the quarry road on the other side but I came out further to the east and had to walk along this busy road for a few hundred yars until I reached a bridleway going up to the road that passes through Cavendish Mill.
I walked down this road to Stoney Middleton, as I entered the village the road got very steep, I think it's one of the steepest in Derbyshire, certainly one of the steepest streets in a village.
