Tissington & High Peak Trails

Back from Scotland having missed last weeks walk with the boys i was up at our Robs for 06:00 this morning. The boys did a walk from Friden last week and they wanted to carry on from where they left off so we ended up in the same car park at Friden. Friden is a small hamlet some miles south of Buxton and its main claim to fame is the brickworks set up in 1892. We set off from the car park through Newhaven, through the fields and down to the old railway track that is now the Tissington Trail. We carried on all the way passed Hartington station up to Parsley Hay where we stopped for breakfast. After breakfast we investigated a small round building we hadn't seen before and it turned out tp be a Istrian Stone Shelter, a gift from Croatia to the UK to mark their accession to the European Union. From Parsley Hay we started back along the trail to a junction where we took the left branch which took us on to the High Peak Trail and eventually back to the car park.
We had a good early start, quite warm but overcast and the sky didn't clear until we were about 10 minutes away from the car.

This weeks route just over 7 miles.

Ike's turn to drive

Never seen so many of these in one place.

This looks a very old and once impressive building.

Just look at the size of those slabs in the style.

Rob found a little friend.

Ike & Geoff

You can just imagine the steam engines blasting around here.

Rob leap frogging over a fence.

Track side hut with a level marker on the side.

A shot through the window of the Hartington signal box.

Rob, Ike & Geoff checking out the boundary markers.

Cast iron boundary markers

Geoff preaching from his box.

Hartington signal box

Spotted this from the trail, it looks like a lime kiln with a dew pond in the field.

Dont know what this circle is, probably an old dew pond structure.

Look at these tree's growing out of the rocks.

Looks like they've had a barn fire.

A huge built up bank for the track and an even bigger railway cutting .

Geoff & Ike

This cutting must be  40 feet high, must have been thousands of tons of solid rock to shift.

A jogger  on the trail

A couple of bikers

Ike chased his plastic bag for about 20 yards after it got blown away in the wind.

Me at the Istrian Stone Shelter in Parsley Hay.

Istrian Stone Shelter from Croatia

The junction for the High Peak trail and the Tissington trail

Massive railway cutting.

The cast iron plaque above the tunnel

Huge ferns with Geoff

One of the old track markers.

A cracking walk just over 7 miles mostly along old trackbeds and by the time we got back to the car it was quite sunny and very warm for the first day of spring .

See you next week