Dark Peak Walks (eBook)

40 walks exploring the Peak District gritstone and moorland landscapes

Paul Besley (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
224 Seiten
Cicerone Press (Verlag)
978-1-78362-464-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Guidebook to 35 walks in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park. 35 circular routes for most abilities, from 8km to 19km, around Edale, Marsden, Fairholmes, Baslow and Castleton, including Kinder Scout and Mam Tor, and 5 longer (25km to 45km) routes highlighting the best of the Gritstone Edges, High Moorland and Deep Valleys.

Autor

Paul Besley is a volunteer Ranger for the Peak District National Park and a member of Woodhead Mountain Rescue, an informative walking guide and writer. He first went walking in the Dark Peak when he was 14 years old and a love of the high moors and gritstone edges was born. Over the following years he has explored the area, walking its moorlands, investigating hidden cloughs, expanding his knowledge and experience of this landscape.

Inhalt

Map keys

Overview map

Introduction

Geology

Plants and wildlife

History

The future

Local services and transport

The walks

Responsible walking

Maps and navigation

Using this guide

Eastern Dark Peak

Walk 1 Chatsworth to Birchen Edge

Walk 2 Longshaw Estate and the gritstone edges

Walk 3 Fox House to Big Moor

Walk 4 Fox House to Stanedge Pole

Walk 5 Grindleford to Higger Tor

Central Dark Peak

Walk 6 Hathersage to Stanage Edge

Walk 7 Wyming Brook to Stanage Edge

Walk 8 Bamford Moor

Walk 9 Win Hill to Hope Cross

Walk 10 Kings Tree to Shepherds Meeting Stones

Walk 11 Westend and Bleaklow Stones

Walk 12 Derwent Edge

Walk 13 Alport Castles and the Woodlands Valley

Walk 14 Margery Hill to Back Tor

Walk 15 Low Bradfield and Dale Dyke

Walk 16 Langsett to Howden Edge

Walk 17 Langsett to Pike Lowe

Walk 18 Torside to Bleaklow Head

Walk 19 Wildboar Clough to Lawrence Edge

Walk 20 Old Glossop to Bleaklow Head

Walk 21 Kinder Scout Northern Edge

Walk 22 Kinder Scout Western Edge

Walk 23 Kinder Scout

Walk 24 Kinder Scout Southern Edge

Walk 25 The Great Ridge

Northern Dark Peak

Walk 26 Dunford Bridge to Ramsden Clough

Walk 27 Crowden Horseshoe

Walk 28 Crowden to Chew Valley

Walk 29 Marsden to Black Hill

Walk 30 Alphin Pike to Birchen Clough

Walk 31 Binn Green to Great Dove Stone Rock

Walk 32 Cotton Famine Road

Western Dark Peak

Walk 33 Goyt Valley to Shining Tor

Walk 34 Derbyshire Bridge to Shutlingsloe

Walk 35 The Roaches

Long day walks

Walk 36 Marsden to Edale

Walk 37 Langsett to Edale

Walk 38 Gritstone edges

Walk 39 Edale Horseshoe

Walk 40 Kinder Scout skyline

Appendix A Route summary table

Appendix B Useful information

Appendix C Aircraft crash site locations

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.8.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 89 colour photos, 41 maps
• Verlagsort: Kendal
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Schlagworte: Castleton • Edale • Hathersage • Hiking • Kinder Scout • ladybower • Mam Tor • OL1 • OS map • stanage
• ISBN-10: 1-78362-464-7 / 1783624647
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78362-464-5 / 9781783624645