A walk to the stone igloo on the moors near Brown Knoll today.
I caught the bus to Castleton and walked through the village and then along the road to the entrance to Winnats Pass. There's a path that climbs up onto the northern rim of the pass and I hadn't decided whether or not I'd be using it until I arrived there. I decided against it though because I think there's a steep descent back down onto the road as the only way of getting down...so I continued walking up the pass using the wide grassy area at the side of the road.
At Winnats Head Farm there's a path that goes over towards Mam Nick where the carpark is located. I then walked along the top of Rushup Edge until I reached the path that goes across the moor to the trigpoint at Brown Knoll.
The stone igloo and a building associated with a air shaft for Cowburn Tunnel are reached before Brown Knoll and were easy to find. I walked across the moors to reach them, I didn't continue over to Brown Knoll though.
A couple was sitting down and eating their sandwiches at the igloo; the woman told me that the igloo had been built by an eccentric old man a few years ago.
I didn't go inside, the entranceway was too low.
[On my paper Ordnance Survey map it's shown as 'Gowburn Tunnel' but the error has been corrected on the online version]
The moor is Access Land and so I was able to make my way directly over to the west to join the Pennine Bridleway. I turned left at Rushop Hall and then continued along the road that goes along the bottom of Rushup Edge back to the Mam Nick area. I finished by taking the easy option, retracing my steps back to Castleton.
It's a small bus station at Castleton but today there were three buses waiting there - something I've not experienced before.
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