Monday 12 July 2010

Froggatt and Grindleford

We started from the National Trust's Hay Wood car park and followed the path along Froggatt Edge. It was rather a dull, cloudy day ...

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

... and there weren't many walkers about.

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

Some of the gritstone boulders up there are really intriguing ...

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

A mile or so along this path another path cuts back sharply to the right, below the Edge. Here discarded and unfinished millstones lie around on the ground ...

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

We walked down the hill into the village of Froggatt and walked along Spooner Lane. Beside the lane there were these fresh green leaves starting to push through ...

 Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

Spring was only just starting to make its presence felt and looking back [from July] everything looks so bare.

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

 The wood betwee Froggatt and Grindleford is delightful at any time of the year.

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

There's a pond part way through the wood and, somewhere, I have a slide showing me swinging across the pond ... no, really.

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

Shortly after this we took a path that rose up the hillside to see where it went ...

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

... it dropped back downhill to join up with the path we had left ten or fiteen minutes later.

We reached the Peak and Northern signpost at Grindleford Bridge.

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

We were on the way back by now and turned eastward, uphill, towards Hay Wood car park. On the way up the hill another signpost gave us an option to go one way ... or the other ...

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

The climb up the hill continued though I don't think it was quite as bad as this photograph might suggest ...

Froggatt and Froggatt Edge ~ 6th April 2010

 Date of walk ~ 6th April 2010

Length of walk ~ 4 miles

Total walked so far in 2010 ~ 59 1/2 miles

Total walked since 1st September 2009 ~ 189 1/2 miles

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