I parked at Grindleford Station which took a while. You need to download the Ringgo Parking App only you can’t as there is no signal. So I had to ring their robot telephone service which took ages as the signal was so bad. Be easier to park up the hill at Longshaw but then the walk wild end with a big climb instead of getting it over at the start. There is a path up through the woods just right of the Station Café. This quickly leads to a road where there is a continuation path a it off to the left. This climbs steeply up through woodland then a bit less steeply over some pasture to the track connecting the Grouse Inn with the Longshaw Estate. I turned left on this and followed it to the road. Here I ignored the path just across the road and a bit to the left. Instead I turned rights and walked almost to the inn where there is another path that leads up towards White Edge. As it gets closer it branches and I took the right branch signposted White Edge. It was windy up here today, a welcome relief as it was very hot. An easy track leadsd along the edge and then turns right down to Curbar Gap. Right a bit down the road themn a path off left leads to Baslow Edge. After a bit this branches. The left branch goes direct across the moor to the Eagle Stone and Wellington’s Monument. The right branch which I followed stays close to the edge. When the edge runs out there is a track down into Baslow where I flowed School Lane to the main road then over the bridge by the church and north up Bubnell Lane. Where this turns west there is a path that leads invitingly acrss fields, As it approached Calver it branches. I stuck to the right and and the river. The path goes ujnder hthe main A623 road at Calver and carries on past a campsite towards New Bridge. At New Bridge I crossed the road and kept heading north staying on the west side of the river. There were some people swimming just here and it looked like heaven so I jumped in myself. It was heaven. Rejuvenated, I kept going up the Froggatt Bridge and on through Horse Hay Coppice to Grindleford. I was tired now. The rejuvenation had worn off and it was a slog up the hill past the Maynard back to the car. I was glad Ihadn’t left the big climb to the end of the day.
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