How many times have I photographed Burbage Brook as it passes under the bridge near Grindleford Station ? Every time I've passed over it with a camera in my hand I should think. Well, here's another ...
It was going to be a good walk ... I was feeling lucky ...
I crossed the bridge over the railway line to enter Coppice Wood ...
Once I reached the River Derwent I did a sharp left turn and walked downstream ...
I left the wood and entered the fields before Grindleford ... and found a fire extinguisher ...
At the bridge in Grindleford I stopped to admire the old Peak & Northern footpath sign. Is this really over 100 years old ? It's beautiful ...
The path behind the Peak & Northern sign led into Horse Hay Coppice ...
The paved path leads through the woodland ...
... until you reach a pond ...
... where, as I have mentioned more than once, I once swung across, Tarzan-style, on a rope. There is a photo ... somewhere.
The paved path continued ...
... beyond the trees there are two or three fields before you pick up the northern end of Spooner Lane with its paved path ...
By the time you reach the southern end of the lane there is a tarmac surface and some typical Derbyshire cottages ...
A couple of hundred yards later there's a distant view of Stoke Hall [built for the Reverend John Simpson] across the Derwent ...
There's more about the hall here.
A testing walk up Moorlands Lane brings you back into the woodland ...
Woodland that was given by Lady Riverdale in memory of her parents, Charles and Josephine Bingham ...
The path proceeds through the middle of the wood, across the hillside ...
It's called Horse Hay Coppice and lo and behold someone had been coppicing ...
I walked towards the edge of the wood ...
... before walking along Tedgness Road back to the car.
This walk was followed on the 21st March 2011
Length of walk ~ 5.06 miles *
Total mileage walked so far in 2011 ~ 74.72 miles
Total mileage between the 1st September 2009 and the 21st March 2011 ~ 602.77 miles
18 of 2011
* distance calculated on Ordnance Survey's Getamap
