Friden and the Tissington Trail

Ike's turn to drive this week and we went to complete another section of the Tissington Trail. We set off as normal at 07:00 and parked up in the car park close to the DSF factory in Friden. We walked to the A515 until we got to the Biggin junction, down towards Biggin and got onto the Tissington Trail via the path from the bridge. We carried on until we reached the Hartington Station Car park then got off the trail onto the B5054. At the entrance to the car park there is lime kiln built into the rocks which was obviously used with materials from the quarry just behind it. After walking up the hill on the road for a while we came to what must have been an old drovers road and this carried on until we crossed the A515 and eventually got onto the High Peak Trail (Midshires Way) and back to the car park.

From Friden onto the Tissington Trail and the High Peak Trail

Just arrived in the car park and greeted with this

Fabulous sun beams in the woods

Just look at the ends of the legs on these chairs

Just consulting the map

Cows at the watering hole

Fields were full of lambs already

Milepost

The Tissington trail runs over the bridge

Bit of railway relic

That's Ike and Rob off in the distance

Wolfscote Hill on the horizon

Breakfast stop in Ruby Wood

Geoff, Ike & Rob

Old railway cabin at Hartington Station.

Lime Kiln

A really tidy Dew Pond

We've got the Lime Kiln, the 3 arch bridge and the Dew Pond 

Huge farm buildings

This is the old drovers road (on the map its marked Green Lane)

Geoff

Rob

Geoff

Rob going to investigate this huge water container

Mooooooo

Clever image on the wall of DSF.

A cracking walk of around 5 miles combining the Tissington Trail and the High Peak Trail. Some lovely light early on especially coming through the trees softened with the mist. Every time i walk on these trails I'm blown away by the engineering done by these guys either building embankments or cutting through tough rocky area's. 

See you next week.