Thursday walk 1 Dec 2022 – Report

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    Andy Smith
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    Thirteen of us assembled at the top of Padley Gorge, in
    foggy conditions (the fog never cleared all day), for a
    gentle 5.5 mile walk through Padley and Longshaw. After
    crossing the footbridge over Burbage Brook we walked up the
    sunken lane known as Hollowgate, once a busy route for
    packhorses carrying goods across the Peak District.
    Turning left before reaching the road, we dropped down to
    the track leading through silver birch woods past
    Lawrencefield Edge, the trees and the mist making an
    atmospheric scene. A descent to Bole Hill Quarry followed,
    where we took a coffee break at the ruins of the old
    winding drum house standing at the top of a 1 in 3 incline.
    When stone for the Howden and Derwent Dams was being
    quarried here, early in the twentieth century, the winding
    drum was used to lower trucks filled with stone, on rails
    laid down the incline, to the railway at the bottom for
    onward transport to the dam sites. After our snack we made
    our way down the incline and then past Padley Chapel to
    Grindleford station. Two of the party left us here. The
    rest of us climbed steeply up, at first on stone steps,
    through Oak’s Wood. After emerging from the wood we took
    the path up to the road near the Grouse Inn, soon for our
    lunch break. Another member of the party left us. After
    lunch we remaining ten crossed the road and took the track
    towards White Edge Lodge, turning off to Wooden Pole. At
    one point we stopped to watch a goldcrest. Finally we
    reached the track to Longshaw Lodge where eight of us
    enjoyed tea, coffee, hot chocolate and snacks. After this
    convivial interlude, we returned to the start past the pond
    and Granby Barn. Andy & Rosy.

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