I walked along beside the river from Alport passing Rheinstor Rock ...
The sun shone on a cool spring day ...
I reached the delightful packhorse bridge as I drew near to Youlgreave ...
Someone who had passed this way before had lost or mislaid a camera ...
After crossing the road in Bradford [part of Youlgreave] I continue upstream with the river now beside me on the left ...
... and crossed the old clapper bridge ...
The cottages and gardens of Bankside rise in an unplanned fashion above the river ...
I turned around further along the dale to take in the path behind me, there was no one around ...
The river can be very still ...
As I walked up the dale I wondered how many other dales have a manhole cover in the path ?
Looking at these photographs I can almost feel the chill in the air ...
After crossing the road in Bradford [part of Youlgreave] I continue upstream with the river now beside me on the left ...
... and crossed the old clapper bridge ...
The cottages and gardens of Bankside rise in an unplanned fashion above the river ...
I turned around further along the dale to take in the path behind me, there was no one around ...
The river can be very still ...
As I walked up the dale I wondered how many other dales have a manhole cover in the path ?
Looking at these photographs I can almost feel the chill in the air ...
I swung right over the bridge towards the top of the dale ...
The path on the western side of the dale rises up to the car park in Yougreave ...
Once I had got to the top of the main road running down through Youlgreave I followed it to reach the old Co-operative store ... now a Youth Hostel ...
The Church of All Saints stands at a staggered crossroads in the village, rising high above the road ...
Depending on where you look parts of this church date back to the 12th century ... or is it the 13th or 14th ?
Walking down Coalpit Lane towards the River Lathkill, a couple of nosey so and sos interrupted my reverie ...
Coalpit Bridge takes a bridleway across the river before climbing steeply up the side of the dale into the fields above ...
A heavily used footpath took me back to Alport. There was a time, not so long ago, when this path was unfenced ...
This walk was followed on the 18th March 2011
Length of walk ~ 3.85 miles *
Total mileage walked so far in 2011 ~ 66.57 miles
Total mileage between the 1st September 2009 and the 18th March 2011 ~ 594.62 miles
16 of 2011
* distance calculated on Ordnance Survey's Getamap
