Out & About: Mill stones

Sunday, 12 April 2015

Upper Padley Lawrence Field and the Ravers Camp

We missed last week due to holidays, injury and sickness. Only 3 of us this week as Ike has a foot injury which may keep him out for several weeks.
We had no plan so we just headed towards Longshaw estate. We travelled up in Robs car and parked up on the lay by at the back end of Longshaw. When we got out of the car we thought we've never been down through Padley Gorge from this end so off we went. We could hear music and heavy drums beating away in the distance as we walked down to the footbridge over the Burbage Brook. After walking down through the woods we changed route and started going uphill and ended up in a quarry where we climbed to the top and that's when we got the blast from the music. Sticking to the track through the birch trees we eventually ended up at an all night rave party. There was fires, dancing, Gabba music and a lot of fun going on. You just couldn't help but start moving to the beat. The people themselves were brilliant, very friendly and just wanted to talk to us, we even got interviewed for their blog. From there we found the old millstones scattered all around and had our breakfast. It was a short walk from there to Owler Tor and back across Burbage Brook then to the car.

Burbage Brook

Footbridge over Burbage Brook

Rob & Geoff

Geoff

Ravers Camp

Geoff & friend

Neil & Beth

Rob & friends

Old abandoned millstones

Our new friends

Breakfadt at surprise view

Surprise View

Millstone in the grass

Owler Tor

Rob on Owler Tor

Mother Cap shot from OwlerTor

Higger Tor & Carl Wark

Footbridge back to the car

A short walk this week of just over 2 miles but oh was it great, we met some cracking kids and had a great time talking to them, i think they were more interested in us than we were of them. I might dig my tent out and go on these weekend raves, not sure if I'll be inhaling from balloons though.
See you next week

Sunday, 31 August 2014

Burbage Edge and Burbage Rocks

It was Ike's turn this week and we decided to go up to Burbage Edge to see the heather before it gets past its best. We first stopped outside the bottom end of the Longshaw estate and took a couple of pics towards Higger tor and Carl Wark. We then headed up to the car park at Upper Burbage Bridge. The morning weather was fantastic with the low sun blinding us. Even Geoff hadn't been on the edge so it was a first for all of us. We decided to walk along the top edge going towards Toadmouth Bridge and return on the lower path past a couple of the old quarries.

This weeks route around Burbage Edge and rocks

Higger Tor and Carl Wark

Higger Tor and Carl Wark

These two prominent gritstone

outcrops guard the western

edge of the Burbage Valley.

Carl Wark is topped with the

remains of what is thought to be

a Bronze or Iron Age hill fort.

Geoff chatting to a walker with Stanage Edge in the background.

Geoff

The Burbage Valley is a basin partly surrounded by

scarps or edges of gritstone Rocks and Minerals with

Burbage Rocks to the east and Higger Tor and Carl Wark

to the west. The rocks were formed in a period geologists call

the Carboniferous (around 360–300 million years ago).

Packhorse bridge across Burbage Brook

Mother Cap on Hathersage Moor

This is a stone trough abandoned after the mason had unfortunately split it.

Rob & Ike with Higger Tor and Carl Wark behind

Sun rising over an old quarry on Burbage Rocks

Over Owler Tor and Mother Cap

This overhang is about the size of my house!!

Giant mill wheels just abandoned

Breakfast time in the quarry.

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More abandoned mill wheel's

Rob

This gritstone edge runs for

nearly two miles along the

eastern side of the valley. It

is one of the most popular

rock climbing areas in the Peak District.

Rob, Geoff, Ike and me with the Burbage valley below.

Burbage Brook and Upper Burbage Bridge

Back at the car park

This is a cracking walk only 3 3/4 miles but in my opinion the most stunning scenery of all the edges.
The first time any of us had been there but it wont be the last.
See you next week.