This guidebook provides 35 day walks and 7 longer walks and trails
exploring the eastern section of Derbyshire's limestone area. The walks
are spread across the area, starting in pleasant towns and villages
including Bakewell, Tissington, Eyam and Middleton. Largely travelling
along well-marked paths over gentle rolling landscapes, these walks are
suitable for walkers of all abilities.
The day walks range between 4 and 12 miles in length, and are
illustrated with extracts of 1:50,000 OS mapping, while the longer walks
and trails are covered by 1:100,000 scale mapping. Walkers can use the
longer trails to link day walks into longer routes or explore the area
on the three-day White Peak Circular, starting in Birchover.
While geologically fascinating with its layers of limestone and
gritstone, the White Peak is also a landscape rich in history and art.
These walks visit sites including medieval churches, the UNESCO World
Heritage Site of Cromford Mill, and Eyam, a village devastated by plague
in the 1660s. Out on the hills are stone circles and ancient sites such
as the Neolithic burial site of Arbor Low.
Walk 1 Bradwell to Offerton
Walk 2 Hope to Shatton
Walk 3 Longshaw to Curbar Gap
Walk 4 Grindleford to White Edge
Walk 5 Foolow to Wardlow
Walk 6 Eyam to Abney
Walk 7 Eyam to Grindleford
Walk 8 Eyam Village
Walk 9 Tideswell to Cressbrook
Walk 10 Curbar to Gardom’s Edge
Walk 11 Calver to Hassop
Walk 12 Calver to Great Longstone
Walk 13 Taddington to Monsal Dale
Walk 14 Chatsworth to Beeley
Walk 15 Ashford in the Water to Monsal Head
Walk 16 Bakewell to Chatsworth
Walk 17 Bakewell to Monsal Head
Walk 18 Bakewell to Over Haddon
Walk 19 Monyash to Sheldon
Walk 20 Rowsley to Birchover
Southern section
Walk 21 Youlgreave to Elton
Walk 22 Middleton to Elton
Walk 23 Middleton to Kenslow Knoll
Walk 24 Winster to Bonsall
Walk 25 Matlock to Dethick
Walk 26 Biggin to Minninglow
Walk 27 Cromford to Black Rock
Walk 28 Cromford to Crich
Walk 29 Middleton to Harboro Rocks
Walk 30 Brassington to Kniveton
Walk 31 Parwich to Alsop en le Dale
Walk 32 Parwich to Tissington
Walk 33 Wirksworth to Alport Height
Walk 34 Tissington to Thorpe Cloud
Walk 35 Ashbourne to Thorpe
Long Walks and Trails
Walk 36 Derwent Valley Heritage Way
Walk 37 Eastern Gritstone Trail
Walk 38 Limestone Way
Walk 39 White Peak Circular
White Peak Trails
Walk 40 High Peak Trail
Walk 41 Tissington Trail
Walk 42 Monsal Trail
