I travelled on the Castleton bus to the Millstone Pub at Hathersage Booths and then walked down a footpath, quite steep in places, to the Derwent Valley Heritage Way, which I stayed with for the rest of the walk to the bus stop at Devonshire Bridge, Baslow. The bus at Shefiield was nearly five minutes late and this worked to my advantage.
The first photograph was taken from the pub carpark.
The weather was better than I was expecting today when I travelled down the A1 with my support worker. We arrived at just after 9;30 and the sun was still quite low on the horizon and so the castle was in shade from the angle I photographed it as we walked into the town centre.
The church was being renovated and was surrounded on most sides by high hoardings - this was the only shot of it I could get.
To finish off my day out we called in at the Welbeck Farm Shop a few miles south of Worksop and I bought a game pie.
This is the walk I attempted to do last week when the buses serving my stop went a different route because of a serious traffic accident in the town centre.
Same as last week, the local weather forecast was slightly better than the one for the Peak District today and so I travelled on the bus the distance of seven miles to Hooton Roberts. I walked down into Ravenfield Park and then looped back up to Conisbrough Hill Top.
I passed a house at Firsby which I'm sure used to have a couple of palm trees at the front; they aren't there now though.
There are fishing lakes at the bottom of the valley in Ravenfield park, about 150ft below the level of the entrance lakes. I didn't see that much of the lakes though today because I took a path I've not used before where there are steep steps cut into the hillside to get up to the highest parts.
Firsby Reservoir is disued and is now a nature reserve with many parts quite overgrown. One of the footpaths makes use of the old spillway; the water wasn't very deep.
The local weather forecast was better than the one for the Peak District today and so I was intending to travel on the bus the distance of seven miles to Hooton Roberts. However, things didn't go according to plan; early this morning there was an accident or incident and the bus station and several of the surrounding roads were blocked off - it was chaos on the buses and after waiting for an hour I gave up and went home.
