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2019.11.13 Chinley Stn (SK038826), ~S / E / S / SW / SSE to cross above A6 Rd at SK040819, ~S to Lidgate, ~SSW to Bradshaw Hall, ~W to Woodside Farm, ~S to cross B5470 Rd at SK034801, ~250 S towards Embkt of Coombs Reser. ~SW to Tunstead Farm, ~SSE up slopes of Ladder Hill, V turn at SK031791 onto track ~WNW - traversing then descending ~W to SK019793, go NW past Elnor Lane Farm & 'cross' to SK015798, turn ~W crossing A5004 Rd & River Goyt & up to church, turn ~N past church toward Reddish Farm & Toddbrook Reser, ~ENE over River Goyt, then ~N on A5004 rd passing under rail track bridge at SK011811, ~N thru Whaley Bridge & ~N / NNW along canal towards New Mills, leave canal at SJ998849, ~N over A6015 Rd & ~ N for 400m to cross Footbridge over River Goyt & up to New Mills Central Station - leader Dave Jefferies - Wednesday

leaving Chinley

Primitive Methodist Chapel and Sunday School 1849

Paper Mill Inn

picture taken from the bridge over the A6 Road

We passed below Eccles Pike - a viewing point in the National Trusts High Peak Estate

Bradshaw Hall - from c1620 - a gradeII listed building

enlargement of entrance arch in picture above

barns / buildings near the Hall

soggy fields - drainage work needed after heavy rains?

tea break

Llamas

The initials above stand for - Peak District & Northern Counties Foot Path Society - founded 1894. Now know as Peak & Northern Footpath Society.

Coombs Reservoir picture taken from the embankment

Near Tunstead Farm. We headed to the left under Ladder Hill

part of Coombs reservoir below

up Ladder Hill to contour path

Coombs Reservoir Sailing Club

The whole extent of Coombs Reservoir

On Elnor Lane

The Shall Cross - see note below

This note extracted from information board at the top of The Shallcross Incline Greenway - a few pictures ahead

Russ Hambleton - Natural Gas Services - London, Paris, Whaley, but mostly Whaley!

Shallcross Incline Greenway - notice with interesting information related to the local area

Bridgeshot of our party (over River Goyt)

a ford over The River Goyt

Graveyard - St James Church Whaley Bridge

Toddbrook Reservoir now pumped out after possibly embankment collapse some months back - some works in progress and access limited

this bridge was part of the The Cromford and High Peak Railway - see note below

note extracted from Shallcross Incline Greenway (earlier photo

bridge gives two options - to right to Buxworth Basin to left to New Mills which we followedu

swing bridge

approaching New Mills

we turned left shortly ahead and crossed on a footpath over The River Goyt toward New Mills Central Railway Station

Millennium Walkway attached to retaining walls

Footbridge crossing the River Goyt just visible to the right of the mill. Railway Station top right.

seen in local history museum near Torr Vale Mill viewpoint - World War I death toll in one local industry - Birch Vale Print Works

Jive and Be-Bop prohibited