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2017.05.10 - James Brindley walk ** - Buxton High Peak Golf Club (19th Hole Public House), Townend Farm, Daisymere Farm, Green Lane, Tunstead Works, Taylor Farm / Tunstead, Hayward Farm, Hargate Hall, Wormhill, just past Hassop Farm then down to Chee Dale Nature Reserve, E along River Wye under brick arch Monsal Trail viaduct and on to B6049 Rd (under steel 'rail' viaducts) to Millers Dale - Wednesday - note various routes possible from centre of Buxton to start point

PH - Marston's, The 19th Hole - on Waterswallows Road opposite golf course

path to follow is to left of this sign (lane to right goes to Lowfoot Farm)

looking back - Watersallows Road seen to right

wonky style & barbed wire - care needed

ancient kissing gate allows only slim walkers to pass (without rucksack?)

Daisymere Farm

flooded disused Waterswallows Quarry (Basalt) to North of Green Lane.

Larger than a 'dewpond'? to South of Green Lane

you have been warned!

Tunstead Works. Limestone faces being quarried in rear.

a blasting shelter - fence along path prevents access and presumably no blasting risk here now due to quarrying.

well made and maintained footpath through the Works. Footpath bridge over rail tracks at bottom

a 100 yard uphill climb - how long allowed for this before actual blast after first warning siren?

tracks to right going through Great Rocks Dale to Buxton not part of quarry complex?

a wonky stile outside the Works area

well maintained footpath & bridge through walks visible

Taylor Farm

memorial pillar to James Brindley 1716 - 1772

a 'millwright' is defined in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (3rd edition 1956) as "one who designs or sets up mills or mill machinery"

a Civil Engineer is defined in the 2011 Collins English Dictionary as "a person qualified to design and construct public works, such as roads or bridges"