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Circuit Walks Around Wirksworth Circ Uit Walk S www.derbyshire.gov.uk/countryside Photographs of the route by Aidan Rumble. Revised December 2016. December Revised Rumble. Aidan by route the of Photographs countryside_sites/visitor_centres All photographs are Derbyshire County Council owned and copyright. copyright. and owned Council County Derbyshire are photographs All www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/countryside/ summer months. Admission charges apply. apply. charges Admission months. summer 01629 533190 01629 Derbyshire Call . on House is open on some weekends during the the during weekends some on open is House be made available in other formats. Contact Contact formats. other in available made be Cromford and High Peak railway. The Engine Engine The railway. 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There is ample pay and and pay ample is There signs. tourist brown the for between Wirksworth and Ashbourne. Look out out Look Ashbourne. and Wirksworth between the-countryside-code Middleton Top is easily accessed from the B5035 B5035 the from accessed easily is Top Middleton www.gov.uk/government/publications/ How to Find Middleton Top Middleton Find to How • follow advice and local signs local and advice follow • • plan ahead and be prepared be and ahead plan • Enjoy the outdoors: the Enjoy is recommended to enhance your walk. your enhance to recommended is • keep dogs under effective control effective under dogs keep • Ordnance Survey Outdoor Leisure Map No.24 No.24 Map Leisure Outdoor Survey Ordnance litter home litter "Circuit Walks around Wirksworth" discs. discs. Wirksworth" around Walks "Circuit • leave no trace of your visit and take your your take and visit your of trace no leave • to follow, and is waymarked with with waymarked is and follow, to Protect the natural environment: natural the Protect footwear. The route should be easy easy be should route The footwear. paths, unless wider access is available is access wider unless paths, prepared and wear appropriate appropriate wear and prepared 5.25 miles 5.25 as you find them and follow follow and them find you as rough and muddy at times, so be be so times, at muddy and rough • leave gates and property property and gates leave • The paths on this route may be be may route this on paths The Middleton Top Middleton outdoors Middleton Top - Wirksworth - - Wirksworth - Top Middleton people enjoying the the enjoying people revive the weary walker. walker. weary the revive community and other other and community plenty of cafés, coffee shops and pubs to help help to pubs and shops coffee cafés, of plenty • consider the local local the consider • Around Wirksworth Wirksworth Around and welcoming place to live and visit. There are are There visit. and live to place welcoming and Respect other people: other Respect streets to explore, Wirksworth is a thriving, vibrant vibrant thriving, a is Wirksworth explore, to streets 1 Respect, Protect, Enjoy! Protect, Respect, With a fascinating history, and a maze of back back of maze a and history, fascinating a With Circuit Walks Walks Circuit Follow the Countryside Code Countryside the Follow Walking Around Wirksworth Around Walking Circuit Walks 1 Around Wirksworth Middleton Top to From left: A knee-trapper, or granny-stopper stile, Wirksworth a view of Carsington Water from Point 7 on the map, Tiremare Lane. 11 Follow this track around the reservoir, looking out for a finger post indicating a footpath to your left. Climb over the stile and follow the footpath across This walk is one of a series of waymarked and 6 Go straight ahead across two fields, through the the field. At the field boundary continue to climb easy to follow walks around Wirksworth and bumps and hollows left by old lead mines. Keep the ahead to the Holly tree in the corner of the following the surrounding area. Allow 2.5 to 3 hours. stone wall to your left until you come to a wicket gate into the third field. The path now goes slightly field. Continue up the next field and at the crest bear left to the far corner of the field where there Start your walk by heading away from the Visitor downhill to another wicket gate in the wall opposite. 1 is a wicket gate onto Stainsbro Lane. Centre and Engine House along the High Peak Trail. If you start going down the steep incline, you've There are magnificent views to be had throughout 7 Turn left on to the lane, and follow it downhill gone the wrong way! the whole walk, none more so than the views of 12 whilst watching out for traffic. Carsington Water and Pitty Wood directly in front At the first gate you come to across the trail, of you. 2 After passing Stainsborough Hall on your left, turn left onto an unsurfaced lane, and then almost 13 and ignoring the footpath directly opposite, look immediately turn right, following the public footpath From the gate, head downhill towards the 8 out for the footpath on your right that goes up a sign over some large rocks, then follow the slope prominent spoil heaps of Smithycove Mine left behind wide track. Follow the track to the right as it gets down to a set of steps. by more ancient lead miners. Keep the workings on your left, and follow them until you reach the remains narrower, ignoring a stile on the left. At the summit turn left over a stile opposite a wooden bench. Go through the wicket gate into the field and of an old gateway. You are now on a section of an 3 From here there are superb views of Wirksworth turn right. Follow the line of the field boundary down ancient highway which linked Derby and Bakewell, nestling in the valley below. Wirksworth has the dip and up the other side, arriving at a ladder known as Tiremare Lane. amenities such as cafés, shops and pubs, should stile over the wall in the corner of the field. From you wish to explore further. here take the path that goes left to a stile by the 9 From the gateway turn left for a few yards. gate leading onto a road. Then go right through a wicket gate by another gateway. Keep straight ahead and cross the field 14 The footpath now heads downhill, crossing a number of fields. In the bottom field the path passes It is here that your Ordnance Survey map is likely towards a pair of wicket gates hidden in a bend in 4 to the left of a stone barn to a wicket gate that leads to be wrong, so follow these instructions carefully. the wall. Once through the gates, drop diagonally across the field to another wicket gate in the onto a road called Yokecliffe Drive. Turn left here and head slightly downhill, ignoring two road junctions Turn right up the hill for about 75 yards before righthand corner by the road below. 5 to the left. Continue until you are alongside some carefully crossing the road to climb through a stone bungalows. Turn left up a small alleyway between squeeze stile into a field. These stone stiles have 10 Turn right towards Hopton along a quiet lane. No's 34 and 36, which leads to a short flight of colourful local names such as knee-trapper and In about one hundred yards take the left turn down steps on to an old lane. granny-stopper! the Severn Trent circular route to the main road. Cross the road with care, and turn left onto the surfaced track around Carsington Water. 15 Turning right here, follow this track to eventually arrive at a road. This is West End, Wirksworth. www.derbyshire.gov.uk/countryside Photographs of the route by Aidan Rumble.
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