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2022.10.19 An Autumn Walk – Start Bus Terminus on Redmires Road at SK.285:862, ~100m ~W on Road, FP ~NNE on edge of Allen Sike Farm, curving to West thru Fox Hagg to SE corner of lower Rivelin Dam wall at SK.277:866, ~W on road for ~350m, join ‘Permissive Path’ Wyming Brook Drive ~WNW and ‘U-turn’ after ~1km at Reddicar Clough to East for ~100m, take FP at SK.266:871 ~WNW thru Wyming Brook Nature Reserve (stopping for a tea-break) then ~W towards (but ~170m short of Head Stone) turning at SK.258:873 ~SSW on FP up to Conduit at SK.256:868.

Continue ~S ‘up’ then ‘down’ to Redmires Rd at SK.257:857 on edge of Redmires (upper) Reservoir, SW then S, on road to join track (Long Causeway) at SK.256:851 ~WSW up passing Woods then on to Stanedge Pole at SK.247:844, then ~W (but before Long Causeway turns down NW) turn ~SSE along the top of Stanage Edge curving later ~SE to the North side of the Trig Beacon at SK251:830, and then ~E to Cowper Stone (lunch break near Stone), continue ~E to & over Upper Burbage Bridge at SK.261:830.

~SE on path (slightly away from ‘Burbage’ Edge) for about 700m, turn off ~ENE at SK.267:825 on track thru moor land bending ~E to Ox Stones at ~ SK.280:831, ~NNW to cross Ringinglow Road at SK.279:835, ~N thru OAL for ~500m to SK.277:840 and stile onto track NE then N thru Brown Edge Farm to Fulwood Lane at SK.278:845.

Follow Lane W then N past Fulwood Head Farm to just past Knoll Top Farm and turn off at SK.277:851 ~WNW (general direction) to Redmires (lower) Reservoir at SK.270:855, ~E on FP then N on road turning off at SK.271:858 onto Redmires Conduit (path) for ~1.4km. At SK.285:858 turn ~N, NE at end, back to Bus Terminus.


2 down toward Rivelin dams

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4 Fly Agaric - poisonous - do not try tasting

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8 Rivelin lower dam

9 embankment to Rivelin upper dam - difficult to get view of the top surface from paths

11 about to join 'permissive footpath' Wyming Brook Drive

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28 turning off point from Wyming Brook Drive to (short of) Head Stone

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38 bracken almost head height

39 Swinlee Farm and Grange in middle and un-named re-building below closer to the A57 Road to Manchester

42 stopping for tea break on path towards Head Stone

44 Surrey Farm on the A57 road below

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58 now heading South up to Conduit which leads into 'distant' Redmires upper reservoir

60 not sure where, but moor land probably burnt to encourage new growth for grouse fattening for later shooting for sport. Take care not to eat poisonous lead pellets!

61 conduit which feeds into the Redmires middle* Reservoir (in opposite direction) - *comes towards the top reservoir but feeds the middle reservoir?

64 Long 'un-cropped' tailed sheep - are these wild?

65 Southward towards Redmires upper Reservoir. Impressive decaying dry stone wall ahead

73 still heading towards Redmire Reservoirs

74 boarded walkway over muddy area eases walkers passage

77 Redmires upper Reservoir embankment in view - water level very low


79 Redmires' upper reservoir wall, middle reservoir and lower reservoir seen below us. The middle reservoir has a stone tower with a trussed bridge to it. Possibly a draw down tower? working? or is water now transferred by other means?

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83 Redmires upper Reservoir with no stone draw down tower? but now with pipe for pumping water to the middle Reservoir?

89 Redmires Reservoirs and The long Causeway - a once important access from Sheffield to the Hope Valley

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91 OS map on site showing permissive paths in yellow around reservoirs (paths not walked on this ramble) except for Long Causeway marked to left (passing woods)

94 up Long Causeway, having passed most of woods

96 looking back at Redmires lower Reservoir?

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106 an interesting 'alignment' - Win Hill to right, Lose Hill behind it, and Man Tor to left

109 Stanage Pole

111 controlled moor land burning for grouse rearing for sport - Stanedge Lodge in foreground

115 looking Soothwest at Stanage Edge - trig point (near High Neb) visible seemingly to right of Edge but actually close to it.

118 Winhill Pike in middle, Lose Hill to its left and Grindslow Knoll above Edale behind?

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123 turning towards Stanage Edge (from Long Causeway)

124 road running below part of Stanage Edge turns through Dennis Knoll, Hope Cement Plant at back and continues as New road towards bamford

127 view from Stanage Edge

131 rock climbers on Stanage Edge

134 along the Edge

137 Southward on the Edge

138 looking back at Stanage Plantation just below the Edge

139 view from Stanage Edge

144 Millstone Edge (centre)?, Over Owler Tor to its left?

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149 looking from Edge at expanse of moor land behind it

150 looking back at the Edge. Smoke from controlled burning seen earlier to right

151 Trig Beacon at SE 'end' of Stanage Edge

161 starting on a way down toward Burbage Upper Bridge

163 lunch break sheltered from cold wind

171 down towards Upper Burbage Bridge

172 popular car parking spot near Burbage Bridge (on Ringinglow Road which can be 'icy' in witers

173 Is this Cowper Stone?

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179 looking down Burbage Valley - Higger Tor in middle, Carl Wark 'Fort' lower down to left

180 Information sign near Burbage Bridge - read about Carl wark

184 Ox Stones - eroded by wind but surprisingly with some plants growing from cracks

187 Ox Stone - Stanage Edge in distance to it's left

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193 the last of the Ox Stones

195 about to turn left before Lady Cannings Plantation and then to cross Ringinglow Road into Open Access Land

199 across Ringinglow Road and heading toward Brown Edge Farm


202 moor land above suburbia

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208 entering walled stone lane to Brown Edge Farm

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210 a rather overgrown Hedgerow probably over 200 years old? needs carbon Dating?

211 the city beyond sheep

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215 from Brown Edge Farm onto Fulwood Road - 11 of group turned left, one of group turned right.

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218 some recent rains - too late and too little to fill reservoirs for next year? Hopefully prays for rain will be answered?

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223 Knoll Top Farm, we turned left on path down to Redmire lower Reservoir just passed here. Arla - lower caption reads 'suppliers of farm assured milk to Milk Link- Britain's leading farmer-owned dairy business'

229 Redmire lower Reservoir

230 house seen down below before reaching reservoir - not too sure where it was but nice colours

226 We, after 'touching' the lower reservoir, went on foot path East to this road then North down it, turning off to right (before reaching Wyming Brook Farm (seen here), onto Redmires conduit Path Eastward. Not clear where the conduit actually is and where it takes 'water'?

236 on conduit path towards bus terminus (almost 2km) - see route description. This path passes near a demolished World War II 'prisoner of war camp'.

(This area also had POW camp in World War I - see walk 2021.05.30 picture 3 for interesting details)