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2023.02.08 Wednesday - start Dore & Totley Railway Station (SK.324:813), ~200m N on A621 road, ~W / WNW / W for ~1.6km following FP / brook up to Limb Lane SK.308:820, ~120m ~N on L.Lane then ~350m ~W on Ash House Lane to Hathersage Road & ~120m ~W along it crossing ~NW along Long Line (a road) for ~550m then turn off ~NNE on FP (on West side of woods) to SK.303:831, ~WNW thru woods then W across fields to SK.294:833, ~N for 140m then WNW for ~360m up to road running SSW from PH, follow road just 'touching' Houndkirk Road SK.290:835, but turn ~W into Lady Canning's Plantation then ~WSW exiting at edge of woods SK.281:833, ~W for 200m to Ox Stones turning ~SSE for ~800m thru moor land to rejoin Houndkirk Road at SK.283:845, follow H.Road ~SSW for ~2.5km passing Outdoor Pursuits Centre and joining A6187 (Hathersage Rd) at SK.270:850, ~130m SW on road then turn off SE on FP turning ENE then ~E to cross Road (along Met Dist Bdy) at ~SK.274:802, follow path ~WSW bending ~S to SK.280:796, path 'wanders' ~ENE to Lenny Hill, we followed FP NNE then ENE (very steep in parts) - (to the East of the NNE Blacka Dike BW) to join this BW at SK.294:807, ~300m along BW & turn N but then directly SSE to Hallfield Farm then ESE passed Avenue Farm along Oldhay Brook (across Oldhay Lane) then ~E along Totley Brook Road but then crossing over the Railway Line at SK.314:804, follow path parallel to South of the railway line which turns N (above unseen spur rail track in tunnel) at SK.324:869 for 400m (crossing Twenty Well Lane) back to Dore & Totley Railway Station.


2 path follows Limb Brook initially (then path bends later ~W toward Limb Lane)

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21not sure if party spotted these 'gorillas' passed in an English country garden

26 'Long Line' is a road running from Sheephill Farm ~ESE to Hathersage Road


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29 Is this Long Line Farm? (to North of the Long Line Road)

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34 heading NNE on footpath from Long Line (Rd) to woods near Rough Standhills / Limb Valley

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44 report on ongoing forestry works

45 tree planting work

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48 settling down for morning teabreak

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56 some distance walked WNW in woods before exiting into fields at South


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63 exiting into fields from woods

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67 leaving woods (over stile which needs fixing) into fields and then going to West

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76 rest of party over faulty stile

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82 West in fields

85 which large farm is seen here? We go ~N from this ladder Stile.

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93 same stile as in picture 85 - being crossed by tail end

95 the farm again

99 decayed farm building Copperas House at SK.295:834 with 'artwork' by Phlegm - a Sheffield based Welsh born Artist - see Wikipedia

102 closer up to artwork

103 further away from decayed farm

104 zoomed into house on road SSW from Public House (start of Sheephill Road). The House is in Moor Cott adjacent to or possibly in Lady Canning's Plantation?

105 before teaching road in above picture

107 at start of Houndkirk Road (a byway at one time open to all traffic) and about to turn into Lady Canning's Plantation

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111 have left Lady Canning's Plantation (having crossed 'byway' which was once 'open to all traffic') and now heading to Ox Stones


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114 Ox Stone to right and to left in distance is southern end of Stannage Edge?

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123 joining Houndkirk Road at SK.283:825 (site of group pictures)

125 some of group hidden

127 hopefully full group

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134 Higger Tor at top with Carl Wark Fort slightly below at West

135 Over Owler Tor (rocks) to left of centre.

137 looking towards Dore?