Baslow, Rowland, and Bakewell

I had planned to go to Cutthroat Bridge today but the first train going to Sheffield was cancelled. Instead I caught the Bakewell bus to Baslow and headed west across the  fields, and then continued along Wheatlands Lane.

I don't know what this small structure is but I've seen photographs of it and so knew it was there.

I took the footpath which goes along the top of Bank Wood and eventually got down to the Hassop road. There's a path that runs right alongside the road here and then leads up onto Hassop Common, where I briefly got lost.

It's a single track road down to Rowland.

For the final two  miles of the walk I was heading due south towards Bakewell. I didn't walk right into the town centre today though, instead I went to the nearest bus stop, opposite to the cottage hospital.

A Circular Walk From The Ladybower Inn

I travelled to the Ladybower Inn and walked down the road, crossed over Ashopton Viaduct and walked up the steep footpath to Crookhill Farm and beyond.  Just beyond Crook Hill I spotted my first snow of the winter in a sheltered hollow.

There were lovely views looking up the valley to the west.

At a junction of footpaths I selected the one that went down through the woods to the Fairholmes Visitor Centre, a route I'd not used before.

I walked along the eastern shore of the reservoir to return to the Ladybower Inn. I got back there just after midday; I'd had enough though, the weather was deteriorating and my foot hurt.

Baslow, Chatsworth Park, Calton Lees, Rowsley, and Bakewell

I travelled to Baslow Nether End this morning and walked through Chatsworth Park to Calton Lees.

The deer were on the cricket pitch. I spent a bit of time trying to work out which fielding positions they had taken.

 

I continued to Rowsley, cutting through the graveyard and the churchyard and so therefore missing out  most of the village.

I left the churchyard and walked up the hill, going along the track to Bakewell. A bus was due, it was actually waiting at the bus stop and so I got on it.

At Sheffield Railway Station I had to wait over an hour for a train back to Doncaster; the Scarborough and Cleethorpes trains were cancelled and then the Newcastle train had to wait on the platform for several minutes.

Curbar Crossroads, Curbar, Froggatt, and Surprise View

I caught the Bakewell bus to Curbar Crossroads and walked along the path to the Wellington Monument. There are usually Highland cattle along here, as there were today...but that's all.

This isn't the Wellington Monument...

...but this is.

I then continued down to the village of Curbar using several different paths, all well signposted. I was glad to get out of the cold wind.

I had to be careful not to get my shadow in shot as I took these photographs.

As I approached the village I got chatting with a local dogwalker who told me that this quaint little circular building used to be a jail.

I walked down the road  to Froggatt. and joined the the Derwent Valley Heritage Way there and stayed with it for about a mile until I climbed up to the Hathersage road.

I went up onto the moors and had quite a clamber to reach the rocks at the top.

I returned to the Hathersage road at the Surprise View Car Park where there's a bus stop. I'd had the best of the weather by now and it had just started to rain as the bus arrived.