A short walk in glorious weather. From Sheldon up past the mine and down into Kirlkdale across fields and down an overground path past an old barn. Then over the road and up onto Bole Hill. The summit is somewhere hard to say where- in a big rectangular field by some woods. When I was here before in April 2011 the trig point was looking healthy and upright. Now it is toppled, a fallen soldier. There are a lot of Bole Hills. One on Wormhill Moor east of Buxton also has a trig point, one to the east of Spitewinter in East Derbyshire, two in Sheffield, one by Graves Park and one in Walkley/Crooks on whose slopes I live. There is a Bole Hill Plantation near Whirlow and a Bole Hill Quarry on the Longshaw Estate. If you are after exclusivity call your hill some other name. It means a place where lead is smelted apparently. I retraced my steps to past the mine but made a little detour towards the village to bypass some rather frisky bullocks.
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