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2021.05.26 Tideswell (Bus stop / toilets SK151.756), ~N on Queens St to junct then ~W up Parke Rd, ~SW on Stancote Lane turning off W at SK147.754, then continue WSW to join & follow Limestone Way ~N to Road & turning ~W down Rd to Monksdale / Peter Dale - follow Peter Dale & Hay Dale ~NNW to leave L.S.Way & Hay Dale at SK119.775 & follow Dam Dale ~N beyond Dam Dale Farm to drystone wall at SK117.788 & follow wall ~NE to cross A623 Rd at SK118.790, follow FP then Rd ~ ENE to rejoin LS Way, NNE on L S Way past The Cop up to OAL, ~ENE past Trig Beacon continuing to SK137.804 joining FP ~SSE for over 2km down to Pittlesmere Lane at SK148.785, ~W along rd & just past Bushy Hearth Farm turn ~SSW down Manchester Rd passing Whiterake and to and across the A623 Rd at SK143.775,  continue ~S for 600m along Brook Bottom, and turn ~W onto a Byway (Water Lane), at SK1139.768 take FP (actually vehicle track) ~SW for 1.2km to join Weston Bank (rd) ~E for about 100m but then continuing ~E on informal path to 'Tideswell Community Orchard & Wildflower Meadow', continue ~ ESE then ~S back to Start. Wednesday - 2 on walk

1 Some houses in Tideswell near our starting point
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3 the start of Stancote Lane
4 possibly an old mill converted into housing?
5 Tideswell Parish Church - St John the Baptist - from 1200's - interesting read on web
6 looking down on Tideswell from Stancote Lane
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9 Monksdale House at top of road running down to Monksdale & Peter Dale
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11 start of Peter Dale seen from road
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13 rough rocky path surface in parts of Peterdale
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16 just at Hay Dale - interesting horizontal 'ridges' on slope surface - not clear how formed?
17 Hay Dale - national Nature Reserve
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20 fossils embedded in limestone stile steps
21 looking back
22 In Dam Dale
23 factory farm for cattle / cows - Dam Dale Farm
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25 Dam Dale Farm
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27 Damside Farm
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34 dewpond in foreground
35 Starve House Mine? (disused) - close to Trig Point. Mam Tor visible at back. We stopped here for lunch.
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38 Trig Point

39 Mam Tor in distance with Kinder Scout behind

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41 cotton grass

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43 Bushy Hearth Farm on Pittlesmere Lane

44 at back on left the disturbed ground of Tideswells Rake

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46 disused sheep dip alongside 'Brook Bottom'

47 the Byway taken by us

48 turning into Footpath which really a wide road track

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50 building about to collapse
51 view down towards Tideswell
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54 Tideswell Community Orchard and Wildflower Meadow
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56 Bagshaw Hall
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59 Marketgate House
60 sign at Marketgate House
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