325 PBW Along the Route General Grit & gravel 300 G 2 Technical Difficulty PBW Pennine Bridleway National Trail 310 It's steep, 290 Easy: Generally a hard smoothish surface Gate but not too long PBW Grit & sand Moderate: A more uneven surface 3 Wall 275 1313 Technical: Rough, uneven going. Difficult! A rare bit of flat! Footpath 230 Generalisations only. Allowance for weather also required. Turn through gate at Ford Farm P Car park Too slow here and you 'Off Road' Path Type sign for Bridleway 14 A624 i Tourist / Visitor Information Centre 250 could be swimming! 14 260 Bridleways (a black edging to a technical grade) 2 300 Public House 225 Harthill Farm Byways (no edging) 230 PBW Bridleways are for cyclists, walkers and horseriders and are generally Cafe 1 Bullshaw ROWARTH well signposted. In particular the Pennine Bridleway is often Miles from the Start 225 Farm Blackshaw 5 1 250 Farm signposted PBW. Little 275 A Reference markers for text description (see over) 200 Farm WALL Uphill Indicator Mill Inn WALL Bashed to bits! Shown along the marked route. It’s subjective but at least an Other Byways & Bridleways 1 Grass indication of what is in store! Farm Gritty Points Uphill Very Narrow Road: surface may be in poor condition Rocky Stony H 1 Leg Warmer 2 Pulse Racer 3 Lungbuster Minor Road 2: often single track 3 Stony Minor Road 1 12 Grit & The last little 345 Gradients / Heights 12 some stones 300 climb before Hayfield! 310 Spot heights (in metres) marked along the route Main Road: ‘A’ and ‘B’ Roads PBW 275 Contours (25 metre intervals) Gritty The representation on this map of roads, tracks and paths 1111 Lantern Surface Descriptions is no evidence of the existence of a right of way. 1 As annotated on the map - generalisations only. Allowance for Pike weather also required. © Crown copyright. All rights reserved Natural 325 1515 England 100046223 2008 Straight on 'Off Road' Downhills 200 300 PBW This map has been designed and produced by Finders (ignore path off to left) Note : Long arrow in downhill direction UK Limited and includes original survey ©Finders UK Tarmac Limited. Farm 275 For other mountain bike maps produced by Finders UK Wide Track Sett Valley Trail please visit www.bikemaps.co.uk/peak_district.htm 230 old railway line PBW 260 This route guide includes subjective elements such as gradings, SITCH LANE F Stones, Hayfield HAYFIELD and generalisations such as surface descriptions (both these may ASPENSHAW RD 2 mounds 180 change over time & will be affected by the weather). Maps and 1 Visitor Centre Church routes are for guidance only. It is up to you the cyclist to judge Sett Valley Trail PBW your own cycling competence, be aware of the conditions on the old railway line 165 PBW A6015 PBW i Gritty ground and be in control of your bicycle at all times. Whilst every 185 Ind Est 1 180 effort has been made to ensure all the information presented is Sycamore 16 200 Camp 11 accurate we can not guarantee it is error free. In no event will any 16 party involved in the making of this route guide be liable for any Site Stony special, direct, indirect or consequential damages out of the use Inn P A PBW Grouse START PBW or inability to use the route guide. BIRCH access from A6015 Toll House VALLEY RD 2 1 A6015 Pub Bumpy (Antiques) 3 Gritty O 1 mile 1010 fun HIGHGATE RD Time to work! 1 175 VALE 300 9 Farm 9Broken 280 O 1 km 200 E B Tarmac WALL Phoside 475 Farm A624 NEW 225 PBW ROUTE Grassy 3 250 DIRECTION 450 MILLS No pain without gain! Solid track 2 Gritty 425 275 Ollersett 2 Gritty ruts 400 Moor 360 380 Test those brakes! PBW WALL 1 Grassy & gravely Hills Farm Gravel 33 400 Mount 8350 2 8375 430 WALL Famine N PBW Rocky Bedrock Gritty 440 & Stones Stones l Short stony 460 section Well done, a nice bit of l New flat & then a tiny uphill South PB Watch out for l WE 400 before time to descend. Allotments 417 Beet Lane 425 l Hard work just about done. 350 Head C signpost 450 400 l 300 You've got to burn those Peaty, boggy BEET LANE energy bars 375 l S 3 when wet 250 400 off some how! Speed control! Rocky PBW l 350 350 l WALL Keep wall l on left Chinley l l 77 Beet Farm Grit & Stones 325 Roych 3 400 Churn l 300 l Stony Clough l 275 l Throstle Bank A624 l 250 4 FURNESS 300 4 l Farm RAILWAY l Brief 330 l 6 Watery Eyes VALE 250 respite 6 3 l l Curse that STUBBINS LA l A6 l B6062 false top! l l 2 1 D l l l l l l l 210 l l l l l l B6062 l l Chinley Station l l l 215 l l l Shops St Mary's Church l l l l l Crown & Mitre RAILWAY l l l l l l l l STATION RD l l l l l l A6 BUXWORTH CHINLEY l l A5004 Old Hall Inn l l l l l Oddfellows 55 l l l WHITEHOUGH WHALEY A624 CHAPEL l MILTON l BRIDGE A6 l l l l CHAPEL-EN-LE-FRITHl l ROUTE LENGTH Pennine Bridleway Hayfield Highs 17 miles A circular Mountain Bike Route around Hayfield, Chinley & Rowarth 27km that includes sections on the Pennine Bridleway National Trail This map is part of a series that can be downloaded free from www.nationaltrail.co.uk/penninebridleway Refreshments Hayfield has a good selection Hayfield Highs of pubs which serve food, a chippie and convenience Mountain Bike Route stores and there are several pubs on route (see map). Route length: 17 miles / 27km. Rough Time 31/2 - 61/2 hours. If waiting in Chinley for the train then there are two pubs This is a "full-on" mountain biking route where hopefully the wonderful memories will last longer than the tired legs! a short ride away at It has uphills to test the fittest and varied downhills that on occasion may test your nerves! Whitehough. Chinley also has The ride is a great mixture of bridleways & byways connected by short sections of lanes and roads. Scenery is ever a couple of shops. changing plus there are good choices for refreshment stops with several pubs and a cafe on-route. There is also The Special There is an obvious short cut option at Birch Vale, taking the Sett Valley Trail straight back to Hayfield (see map). Touch Cafe at Birch Vale This would reduce the route to about 10.5 miles (selected opening hours, phone 01663 746157 for START: Hayfield Village Car Park, which is also the car park for the Sett information). Valley Trail & is next to the Visitor Centre (it is signposted when at Hayfield). For navigation please note from The Start up to 'Point C' and from 'Point G' E Though the gate then straight down the broken tarmac lane. to The Finish you are on the Pennine Bridleway National Trail which is The lane ends by coming out on a main road, so caution required generally well signposted as the name or 'PBW'. to stop in good time. The points below are referenced on the map When at the road junction go straight across. Follow road down A From the car park, head into Hayfield village over the traffic light then start gradual climb. crossing (opposite the visitor centre) to come out by the church. Pass Sycamore Inn, then after a minute or two TR (sharp turn) TR, climb up street, passing The George Pub. onto narrow Sitch Lane (well signed) and climb all the way to the TL by Antiques Shop (opposite Fishers Bridge Road), then immediate top (you will see lake down on the right). TL onto Valley Road. Follow road, keeping river on left. Road ends. TL onto wide track. Keep on this track. It will climb gradually. At Carry straight on, on the wide path. F top, keep wall on left (ignoring path off to the right) & start By stone pillars bear right & through gate. Climb through & out bumpy descent. It then levels before a very rocky descent brings of the wood. you out onto tarmac. Through gate then small dip to join tarmac lane. Follow straight down and past Little Mill Inn. Take next road turning on right, signed Rowarth. B TR then immediate TR onto track that climbs (to South Head). Pass straight through Rowarth and onto steep tarmac climb. Climb to top & then through 2 gates in quick succession. TL after next gate onto wide track (to South Head) & climb gradually. After about 400 metres TR though the gate signed for Bridleway The track looks like it goes through a gate straight ahead of you onto path. Drop down, over a ford then up and through gate. but bears left immediately before it & through a gate system. Follow straight up the steep lane. Through next gate into National Trust 'South Head'. A bit of flat before a small rocky climb then a stony descent to a gate. G Before top TR onto track signed Pennine Bridleway. Up then through gate. Soon after next gate the path splits, bear right. C 100 metres after the gate TR onto the track that drops down (Beet Follow along then up slight incline. At top go through gate on Lane). right signed for Bridleway. Then with your back to gate head off Follow as it descends steeply, eventually turning to tarmac.