Ramblers Routes Ramblers Routes Britain’s best walks from the experts Britain’s best walks from the experts Northern England Northern England 07/02/2013 10:49 03 Newlands Horseshoe, Cumbria 04 Carvers Rocks, Derbyshire l Distance 16km/10 miles l Time 6 –7hrs l Type Fell l Distance 12km/7½ miles l Time 3½hrs l Type Country NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL NAVIGATION LEVEL FITNESS LEVEL walk magazine spring 2013 spring magazine walk walk magazine spring 2013 spring magazine walk Plan your walk Plan your walk Carlisle l l CUMBRIA Huddersfield l NEWLANDS Sheffield HORSESHOE Hawes P l DERBYSHIRE Stoke-on-Trent CHEESEWRIGHT l Derby P l HILI Blackpool P l Blackburn HY: HY: HY: FIONA BARLTRO HY: TICKNALL P P l WHERE: Circular walk from WHERE: Circular walk from Gutherscale car park via Ticknall via Carvers Rocks, PHOTOGRA Cat Bells, Maiden Moor, PHOTOGRA Foremark Reservoir and High Spy, Dale Head, the old Ticknall Tramway. The Newlands Horseshoe, which up and from the top are superb, The South Derbyshire village of 2. Turn L after the gate to follow Hindscarth and Little Town. START/END: Ticknall takes its name from the beautiful, particularly looking north to Ticknall found its place in the a stone wall and then a line of START/END: Gutherscale car park, Ingleby Lane unspoilt Newlands Valley, is one of Skiddaw and Blencathra, with Industrial Revolution as a producer willows to the R. Continue past car park (NY247212). (SK353241). the finest ridge walks in the Lake Derwent Water below to the R. of bricks, pottery and tiles. Today, a pond to emerge on a stony TERRAIN: Fell ridgetops TERRAIN: Generally good, District. The route starts with one the tramways and tunnels that track by Bendalls Farm. Turn L and valley. Good clear level paths and country of the most popular of Lakeland’s 2. Continue along the ridge down linked Ticknall’s lime kilns to the to the road (Repton Road) and paths throughout, but lanes, except one undulating smaller peaks, Cat Bells, above the to the col and carry on uphill to canal network remain and make turn L along it for the entrance not recommended in section that includes many western side of Derwent Water. Maiden Moor, then southwards for an excellent tour of the village to Foremark Reservoir. About poor or misty weather, steps. Some waterside But things become progressively to the prominent summit cairn and its surrounding highlights, 300m up the drive, take the R except for those with walking and two tunnels to quieter thereafter as you head on High Spy (653m/2,142ft) including rare heathland at turn and walk to the picnic area suitable experience. negotiate, plus the odd stile. south along the ridge over Maiden – a fine vantage point. Carvers Rocks and the bird-rich to enjoy views of the reservoir. MAPS: OS Explorer OL4; MAPS: OS Explorer 245; Moor and High Spy. A descent to marshes of Foremark Reservoir. Go L along the water’s edge, past Landranger 90. Landranger 128. Dalehead Tarn is followed by a 3. Follow the stony path down a car park and playground, to the GETTING THERE: Bus service GETTING THERE: Ticknall climb to Dale Head, the highest towards Dalehead Tarn, which can 1. START Bear L of the village visitor centre and a sign marked 77/77A runs from Keswick is served by hourly buses point on the circuit (753m/2,470ft) be seen below in the distance. The hall and follow the path into the ‘Local walks’. to Buttermere via Cat 60 and 61 from Derby to and a superb viewpoint. The path crosses the stream and climbs 12th-century churchyard and to a Bells (✆ 0871 200 2233, Swadlincote, which run daily return leg is along the Hindscarth up to the tarn, passing round its wooden door in a wall that leads 3. Fork L here onto a path www.traveline.info); (✆ 0871 200 2233, www. ridge, with a saunter back along northern side (not southern, as the to the cricket field. Turn sharp R through trees, past a small sandy Keswick Launch sails from traveline.info). Mainline the peaceful Newlands Valley at OS map shows). This is a pleasant to the corner of the cricket field beach to a fence line. Turn L, near Keswick to Hawes End rail connections at Derby. the end. The views are the glory of spot for a bite of lunch to fortify and cross the stile into an arable then immediately R at the sign jetty, close to the start of EATING & DRINKING: Several this walk, so save it for a fine day. you before the ensuing climb. field. Turn L and follow the field marked ‘Footpath to Carver’s the walk (✆ 01768 772263, places in Ticknall, including boundary to a track behind the Rocks’, which goes down a stony www.keswick-launch.co.uk). The Chequers Inn (✆ 01332 1. START From the car park, a 4. The steep walk up to Dale Head pavilion. Cross it and go through path. Follow this up steps (ignore EATING & DRINKING: Nothing 864392, www.chequers- good path leads up to Cat Bells is the most strenuous part of the a gate into a plantation, then a path to your L), then down en route, but there are many froggatt.com); The Wheel (451m/1,480ft). This is a popular walk, but the stony path is good through another gate. Eventually steps to a boardwalk. Follow this choices nearby, including Inn (✆ 01332 864488, www. climb, but it is quite steep and and clear, and the reward from the path dips and you get a good down to a hollow, then up steps thewheelticknall.co.uk); ▲ Farmers Arms, Portinscale ▲ rocky in places, and care should be the top well repays the effort. view to the northwest of the hills to a fingerpost. Turn R up the taken. The views both on the way In all directions the views are ▼ around Ashbourne. slope to a stile marked ‘Nature ▼ 55-56 WALK38 ramblers route NORTHERN.indd 1 55-56 WALK38 ramblersrouteNORTHERN_rev1.indd 2 Ordnance Surveymap Ordnance Surveymap Continued... Continued... 1 START FINISH and Scaddows Farm Shop & 2 (✆ 01768 772322); Dandelion Café (✆ 01332 865709, ✆ Map not to scale. Café, Portinscale ( 01768 Representation of www.scaddowsfarm.co.uk). 773667, www.dandelion OS Landranger ping ©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 ping ©Crowncopyright.AM34/08 SLEEPING: Derby House cafe.co.uk); Swinside Inn, MAP 90 1:50,000 www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk B&B (✆ 01332 694565, www. Newlands Valley (✆ 01768 derbyhousebandb.co.uk) and 778253, www.theswinside 2 The Stables B&B (✆ 01332 START inn.com); Coledale Inn, 862768, www.ticknallvillage. FINISH Braithwaite (✆ 01768 778272, co.uk) are good options. 1 7 3 www.coledale-inn.co.uk). VISITOR INFORMATION: Lots of choice in Keswick. Swadlincote TIC, Sharpe’s 6 SLEEPING: Accommodation Pottery Museum (✆ 01283 available at Swinside Inn 222848, www.ticknall.org.uk). and Coledale Inn (see GUIDEBOOK: Short Walks above); Littletown Farm 7 in the Peak District (£5.99, B&B (✆ 01768 778353, Collins Ramblers, ISBN 978 www.littletownfarm.co.uk); 0007359448). Swinside Cottage, Newlands LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: Valley (✆ 01539 432321, 4 5 Derby and South Derbyshire www.heartofthelakes.co.uk). Ramblers (✆ 01332 558552, Lots more choice in and www.derbyramblers.org.uk). around Keswick (see Map not to scale. www.golakes.co.uk). Representation of OS Landranger VISITOR INFORMATION: 6 Reserve’, where you re-enter the MAP 128 1:50,000 Keswick TIC, Moot Hall, www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk wood. Turn L and follow a path Market Square (✆ 01768 across footbridges, veering L up a 772645, www.golakes.co.uk). 3 low bank and then L along a path. GUIDEBOOKS: Great After 80m, turn R over a low To download this route and hundreds of others, Mountain Days in the Lake bank and drop down to reach visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes District by Mark Richards Carvers Rocks, a Site of Special (£17.95, Cicerone, Scientifi c Interest. Walk along ISBN 978 1852845162); 5 the base of the rocks and keep 5. Turn L along the road and a bridge across the trackbed, 50 Walks in the Lake 4 ahead to a path junction, where follow it past Top Farm and a side making for a gap in a limestone District by Bill Birkett you turn L onto a boardwalk. turning for Staunton Harold. Just cliff. Cross a stile to an abandoned et al (£9.99, AA Publishing, beyond a cottage on your R , turn quarry, past ponds to a stile by a To download this route and hundreds of others, ISBN 978 0749555955). visit www.ramblers.org.uk/routes 4. Follow it up steps to a winding R at a fi ngerpost, then immediately wide gate. Continue uphill to a LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP: path into the woods and a stile. L onto the old trackbed of the T-junction on a wide track and go West Cumbria Ramblers the rather knobbly ridge is carpeted access drive to Newlands Church – Cross this into a horse-eventing Ticknall Tramway. Follow it L along it to meet with the A514 (✆ 0190 082 4519, www. in heather: a colourful foreground a small whitewashed building, course and follow the ride uphill through the fi rst tunnel and along (Ticknall’s Main Street). ralakedistrict.talktalk.net). and over another stile, turning R an avenue of hawthorn trees, when in fl ower, with Newlands rebuilt in 1843 on the site of an afterwards into a plantation. Take ignoring paths to the L and R. 7. Turn L and follow the road Valley and Skiddaw et al beyond earlier church.