The Elusive Eyam Moor Stone Circle

I missed last week to go to my lovely granddaughters 4th birthday, It was Isla and the theme for her birthday was fairies, it was a brilliant day.
Back to full strength with all 4 of us today and we went up to Eyam Moor to find the remains of an ancient stone circle.
We parked up on Sir William Hill Road next to the gate for the footpath. The Map and my GPS showed 2 footpaths from this spot and none of them went anywhere near the stone circle shown on the maps. There were signs of a track which lead through the bracken in the right direction so we decided to take a chance and follow it. It was a very narrow path weaving through the bracken some times barely just able to see which direction it went, but i was in front with my GPS and the path kept pointing in the right direction. We eventually found it, the GPS took us straight there. It has several stones none of them very high but when you stood back you could see they did form a circular shape.
After taking a few pics we decided to bear right and head down hill towards Sandy Lane. Half way down the hill we found a fantastic uprooted tree next to a wall where we stopped for our breakfast.
After breakfast we carried on down hill to Sandy Lane where we found some lovely old farm buildings. It was a long steady climb up Sandy Lane to Sir William Hill Road, while going up Sir William Hill Road a horse came galloping by at full speed, quite a site and the local farmer was turning his freshly mown crop over, he even gave us a wave as he went past us. Back to the car and home.

The route across Eyam Moor.

The heather is starting to come through 

This is the remains of the stone circle

This looks to be the biggest stone

Geoff, Rob & Ike sitting on one of the stones

Deciding which way to go

On the background you can see Win Hill and Bamford Edge

Remains of a dead sheep

Remains of a dead sheep

Rob in one of the old shoot pens

Bilberries

Breakfast time

Leam Farm buildings

Beech Nuts

Dont know what these critters are but it looks like they about to multiply.

tractor with Ladywash Mine on the horizon

 This was a very short walk less than 3 miles, some of it across rough heather and bracken, thankfully it was dry, no sun but very warm. None of us had been on this route before and we got some different views of some of the well known land marks like Higger Tor, Win Hill and Bamford Edge.
See you next week.