​I parked in the big Trans Pennine Trail carpark by the bridge at Dunford Bridge and headed east down the trail. This is straight and easy and busy with walkers, horse riders and cyclists. Lots of families out on bike with little children. After about two miles I left the trail to climb up and over a bridge then south over moors to cross the A628. Then on past the ruined Far Swindon farmhouse and over fields full of sheep with new lambs to turn right down a track named Swinden Lane on the map. Right at the end to join the road again at Milton Lodge then I followed the road to the Dog and Partridge Inn. (There is a pavement so not too unpleasant.) Then I turned right onto a track which the map tells is part of the Barnsley Boundary Walk. 

​This climbs the moors and ends up crossing a fence and following right alongside the road. There is an ample grass verge so it is safe enough but quite unpleasant partly from the traffic noise but more from the huge volume of litter around which is utterly dispiriting. When I got to the foot of High Nab I turned right and climbed to the top then headed for the path on the map heading up to the west of the Upper Windleden Reservoir. I spend a while thinking the path was a bit rubbish only to meet a better path coming in from  my left which was probably the path I meant to be on all along. It gets very up and down skirting by the reservoir. A couple of geese got a bit agitated – I guess I may have been close to their nest. A final climb took me to the road and then gently down back to the start.    

Bolsterstone is a pretty village that feels a lot posher than Stocksbridge a short walk over fields to the north. I found roadside parking on Stone Moor Road. I followed a path east from the village that follows the top of a high edge to Hollim Edge Farm over fields and woodland. After the farm, now a track, it descends through woodlands which today were a wonderful display of bluebells. On the way down I passed a little sculpture remembering the Wantley Dragon slain according to an old ballad by the valiant More of the nearby More Hall. ​

Soon after this I was on the road where I turned left and soon reached a road on my right leading into the woods. Signs say it is a private road and discourage unauthorised motor vehicles but from the number of cars parked at the other end I think nobody takes any notice. When I got to the reservoir where all the cars were parked I turned left and crossed the dam. Up to this point I met nobody but here it started to get a little busier with lots of dog walkers. I walked along the south side of More Hall Reservoir and was going to do the same with Broomhead Reservoir but there seemed to be no access. (Looking online after I think I maybe could have accessed the south bank bah the reservoir - another time.) I headed through the new build houses in Ewden villiage to reach the path on the north shore which I followed a short way before striking into the woods to try to find a track shown on the map leading back towards the road. This was not where it was supposed to be but after a bit of pathless stumbling around I found a good path which led to a track which led to the road. I followed this, grateful for a pavement, back to the village.  ​

 I parked at Upper Burbage Bridge on near the top of Ringinglow Road. From the car park west of the ridge you can go up Higger Tor by the low path below the crags or the high path above them. I took the high path which stays very close to the road most off the way. The road is so height is an easy climb. Finding a way down to the south there are many possible ways some pleasantly scrarnbly, Then is easy and costly down onto Carl Wark. From here I descended to the Toad's Mouth which is just west of lower Burbage Bridge near the Fox House. I crossed the bridge, carefully as there is no pavement to speak of. Back to the upper bridge there is again a low way below the crags or a high way above them, I took the low way, a track called Green Lane. The walk back along it to where I was parked is gently but relentlessly uphill.  

I parked at the Shillito Wood car park. From here a path not marked on the map leads down onto Ramsley moor where it soon meets a track going north that is marked on the map at a point where it branches. I took the left branch. Only the right is marked as a public right of way but it is all access land so it makes no difference.  I followed this north though woodlands and a brown  ocean of dead ferns. After about a mile it turns left and climbs up to the road about a kilometre south of Owler Bar. I crossed and headed across Big Moor on a track the first few minutes on which involved running the gauntlet of a big gang of cows but they were very placid and grazed on, ignoring me. Probably the same cows I met 29th June last year. I followed the track, taking a left by the house by the reservoir and so back to the road. Almost opposite is a path back into the woods of Ramsley Moor which began with another herd of pleasingly relaxed cows for me to walk through. The path took me to Ramsley Reservoir ,  through the woods to Ramsley Reservoir and onto Fox Lane which I followed back to the car park.  

I parked by the A57 by Ashopton by Ladybower Reservoir and waked through the hamlet then stuck on the path that stays close to the road until almost Moscar House. Then there is a path along the north side of a wall that heads off west. I started out on the south side instead which was not smart. Don't do that.I followed this for about a mile to reach the micro-top at the borttom of Derwent Edge with a 454m sort height on the map. Then a path took ke down past the Hurkling Stones and Whinstone Lee Tor south through the woods and back to where I parked.  

I parkled in Langsett Road North in the middle of Oughtibridge. There were crocuses in flower on the village green. I walked through Senescal Park then followed the road to the field below Coumes Wood. I had passed this way on 5th January 7 and remembered the sign saying there was a bull in the field which, again, there wasn't.  I followed the path along the north edge of Coumes Wood and then into it. The path on the OS map goes west to meet a track just north of Coumes Vale. But before I got there I came to a footbridge that was in desperate disrepair, rotting away and falling apart. I didn\'t fancy crossing it. Happily there is a path not marked the map that stays north of the river and eats the same track a little further north where bitterns sharply right and throws off a branch to the ;left towards Lumb Biush and another to the north. I followed the left branch to the edge of the wood and then a path across the d=edge of a field to meet the road at Onesmoor Bottom. I followed the road NW to the crossroad and then followed the field path, watched by horses, to the top of Onemoor. Then back Lumb Lane and I pounded tarmac back down the hill to Oughtibridgel  

With Helen. There are places to park a few cars just south of Carlingill Bridge. Between the bridgte and these spaces there is a hill, And on this hill this January day was a big sheet of ice. This took a bit of getting up in Helen’s very very powerful little Peugeot. But we made it and we parked and we trudged up over Linghaw to  Fell Head and back. Only not quite. We got as far as the 623 spot height on the OS may a little west of the top when we met a mountain rescue team who asked would we mind not carrying on as they didn’t want us to disturb their seach and rescue dogs that were up ahead trying to find a missing person. No arguing with that so down we came. Fell Head can wait for another day.      

There is roadside parking on Langsett Road North south of Bridge Hill. After a bit of a fale start I crossed the bridge and headed along the riverside path through Beeley Woods,. It is quite busy here. This is where Oughtibridge goes jogging and walks its dogs. After about a mile the path goes down to skirt the graffiti-covered works and cross Rocher Bridge.  The bridge here is dangerous and closed to all traffic. But I had already crossed it when I met the notice telling me this. From here it is a short steep climb to the main road, right a bit and then steps lead up to a path over fields to Stockarth Lane. I followed this very quiet road – it changes its name to Mowson Lane after a bit – up hill to the edge of Worrall where another path off to the left skirts the end of a park leading to Worral Road. This took me into the village. Right down Haggstone Road then left into Towngate Road and between two churches. The road becomes a path across fields then quite steeply downhill to another church and a cemetery. Here I followed Burton Lane bac towards Oughtibridge but went off left on a footpath through the ground of a farmhouse and cross more fields to descend to Wheel Lane. Entering the last field there were signs warning me there was a bull in it and that cow with calves can be aggressive.  But tis cold January day there was no sign of bovine peril. Now I followed Wheel Lane back to my start with a short detour through Sensicall Park.
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About halfway along the north side of Underbank Reservoir on the A616 there is a big layby on the north side of the road. A path leads through the woods for a short way to pick up a path through the woods that runs parallel to the busy main road. This is the line of the old Stocksbridge-Langsett Railway built in the 1890s to support the construction of the Underbank and Langsett Reservoirs. Before long this turns right down to the road on the other side of which it continues to the dam which I walked across. At the south end of the dam is a path that does a sharp zigzag tgo meet the end of Cross Lane that climbs gently uphill into Stocksbridge to a junction. Here I went right onto Green Lane which goes steadily uphill to pass Green Farm which is a horse riding school. From here I kept steadily up some more on a path called Peg Folly on the map to turn right on a road on the edge of Whitwell Moor,. This quickly leads to a car park where there is a  confluence of paths. Mine went northwest a short distance before turning to the northeast and heading downhill. Today this path was muddy and sometimes unpleasantly slippery. I regretted leading my walking pole in the car. Where another path branches right towards Wind Hill Farm just after some big  jumbled rocks  my path turned slightly to the left and carries on down to a bridge on another tarmac road near the e=reservoir. I followed this into Midhopestones and up past the Olde Mustard Pot pub, over the A616 to where a path to the left gives access to a bridge carrying the old railway path I started out on and so back to the layby.   .

With Helen andAnastasia. We parked in the big car park and walked through the village and along Cove Lane into Grass Wood. We walked through the wood visiting the top which is the site of an ancient Brigantian Hill Fort. Round and back to the road then along the riverside path back to the village with a long break to go for a swim in the rover. Then Sunday lunch.