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. .
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