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2022.08.07 Start Main Street Hathersage at ~SK280:815, ~ENE on Besom Lane, ~N on Baulk Lane to Road ~E passing Bronte Cottage, ~NNE to North Lees, then ENE (NW at end to PCs on Road, cross road then NNE then N thru thru Stanage Plantation, up ~N to Stanage Edge, then~NNW crossing Long Causeway, continue along top of Stanage Edge initially WNW and pass Trig Point at High Neb, pass above Crow Chin (along top edge), continue ~N to Stanage End ~SK226:866, go down to lower path then ~NNE (to West of Boundary stones -unseen?), turning N to reach and cross the A57 Road at SK231:879, ~N passing Moscar Lodge then the ‘actual’ Moscar Stone Cross (against the Drystone Wall position not marked on OS map) route bends ~W into Moscar Cross Road and continues down to Sugworth Road (tarred), continue SW (a short distance on it), cross Strines / Mortimer Rd, SSW on track to and thru Moscar House, continue WSW to cross Brook then S to cross A57 Road at Cutthroat Bridge, climb over stile, turn SE from stile then ~E for about 300m on an informal path up thru OAL to SK217:873, turn SW/S above Hordron Edge to pass (& see) Stone Circle at SK215:869, continue S, passing a track E (along some grouse butts), turn ~W to cross Jarvis Clough at SK216:862, continue W to some other grouse butts and follow these ~N to bottom of a disused quarry, turn ~W across a stream at SK210:864, join an informal path turning ~S through Pillars, then ~SW short of a Hut Circle, ~S to Great Tor, follow Bamford Edge ~SE, then SSE down from Edge to Junction at SK214:840 of New Road & Leeside Rd, steeply down Leeside Road a tarred track (not open to vehicles or horses & people with weak knee should avoid it), at bottom SK209:836 take Joan Lane ~SSE, at SK210:834 take FP ~E (well below The Tucker), then at boundary enter and cross woods (to West of Bamford Filters), ~ S to junction SK213:830 of Joan Lane & Saltergate Lane , FP ~SSE into Sickleholme Golf Club then ~ESE passing Shawhay Barn, cross brook at SK221:824, continue to Thorpe Farm (ice cream break), continue ESE to Coggers Lane, and SSE down it but turning SW at end to join minor road SE then E into Hathersage.

1 history / information poster about hathersage

4 Dynamo Cricket seen from Baulk Lane

5 Hathersages Anglican Church - see also picture 174 from Coggers Lane

7 in allotment off Baulk Lane

8 general view of allotment

11 part of group on Baulk Lane

13Farm House? with Stanage Edge at top behind

16 Brookfield Manor

19 Bronte Cottage

22 North Lees Hall (farm attached to this property)

23 passed Hall and turned up toward Stanage Edge

24 looking back

31 typical view of Stanage Edge - with numerous routes for rock climbers

32 purple heather seen behind Denis Knoll

36 boulder climbers with foam mattresses to soften frequent falls

41 party starting climb up Stanage Edge

47 Stanage Edge to West

48 Denis Knoll with Hope cement plant behind

49 Long Causeway up Stanage Edge

50 Heading toward West end of Stanage Rdge

52 Long Causeway stretching to Denis Knoll (wood)

53 looking back at group with Long Causeway behind

56 belaying rock climber?

57 heather again

58 Trig beacon at High Neb

63 Mam Tor - Winhill - Lose Hill with Kinder Scout behind them

64 amidst the heather

68 part of Ladybower Reservoir seen from Stanage Edge

71 turning down from Edge to path below to Moscar

74 on path to Moscar - Moscar cross Farm to right

76 Moscar Lodge - probably originally housed 'shooting parties'


77/78/79 The visible three faces of Moscar Cross - Hatherdage / Sheffeild Road / Brasfield - no easy access to see the fourth face

81 down Moscar Cross Road to Sugworth Road

82 Wheelstones on Derwent Edge in picture above zoomed into

84 party on Moscar Cross Road

87 a view back toward Stanage Edge

88 Moscar House ahead of us. Winhill at top

90 the barn at Moscar House

91 looking back at Moscar House

94 passing horse

97 over high ladder stile a bit awkward

104 toward Cutthroat Bridge

107 have crossed A57 Road at Cutthroat Bridge and party now climbing over stile

112 part of Ladybower Reservoir again - see also picture from Stanage Edge -68

114 Stone Circle with rather small stones

117 looking toward Stanage Edge

118 walking toward the top of Jarvis Clough

121 looking down Jarvis Clough

122 walking towards Grouse Butts

124 one of the grouse butts spread out in a line

125

127 zoomed into Crookes Farm

129 viaduct over Ladybower Reservoir carrying the A57 (Snake Pass Road)

130 view of Ladybower Reservoir embankment. One of two circular bellmouth spillways visible. Winhill Pike at top

133 one of several pillars - probably used for surveying and checking possible embankment movement?

135 another view of Reservoir

138 Great Tor on Bamford Edge ahead

147 Ladybower Reservoir stretching behind viaduct toward The Derwent Reservoir Wall - unseen

151 part of Bamford village below

153 wind eroded stone on the face of Bamford Edge

154 an uncompleted millstone in an earlier ressession period?

155 Farmers campaign at the top of Leeside Road

156

158 Steeply down Leeside Road - slope not too apparent in picture.

163 turning down Joan Lane

167 wooded area below Bamford Filtersleaving

168 Sickleholme Golf Course

169 Shawhay Barn - are we passing it on the correct Footpath side?

170 Golf Course again

173 Stone Cutters Edge seen from Coggers Lane

174 Higger Tor top left, Anglican Church in Centre