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Red deer and the Eastern Edges… 6 miles (10km) www.nationaltrust.org.uk/walks The Eastern Moors, Derbyshire The Eastern Edges on Big Moor are the southern part of the Peak District National Park’s iconic dark peak landscape. Jointly managed by the National Trust and RSPB An adder on Barbrook as the Eastern Moors Partnership, this landscape is special for the diverse wildlife Track. These cold- and is an important place for many people who enjoy walking, climbing, cycling and blooded reptiles can be horse riding. seen basking on spring and summer days, Start: Curbar Gap car park Grid ref: SK262747 warming themselves in the Map: OS Explorer Map, the Peak District (OL24) sun. Identified by the How to get here and local facilities zigzag pattern down the By foot: The nearby villages of Calver and Curbar are within walking distance. This middle of the back, they involves some steep walking up to Curbar Gap. A more gentle approach is possible usually move away when from the village of Baslow to the south, along Bar Road and Baslow Edge © Eastern Moors Partnership they hear you coming. By bike: The route from Baslow is a bridleway and is accessible by mountain bikes for cyclists who would rather not use the roads By bus: 214 from Sheffield to Calver; 66 from Chesterfield to Baslow and Calver; 170 Red deer on Big Moor. from Bakewell to Baslow and 175 from Bakewell to Calver The best way to observe By train: The nearest station is at Grindleford, within 3 miles of Curbar Gap. There are deer is with binoculars or also stations at Sheffield and Chesterfield a telescope. Trying to get By car: From the M1 junction 29, follow the A617 to Chesterfield, then take the A619 closer will only scare them to Baslow and turn north on the A623. Turn right at the Bridge Inn at Calver and then away. The best time of turn first right again through Curbar village. The car park is at the top of the hill year to see deer is during the rut (mating season), Car parking is free for National Trust and RSPB members. The nearest facilities can be when stags battle to mate found at Baslow and Calver. © Eastern Moors Partnership with the hinds. Look out for… t Adders: Big Moor is known for being a place where you could be lucky enough to spot an adder (see top image, right). The adder is the UK's only venomous snake; rarely Heather moorland is dangerous, but please treat with respect. common in the uplands of the UK and an t Red deer: The UK's largest land mammal, the red deer is another favourite sight on internationally important Big Moor. Sometimes, all you see of the stags (males) are a pair of antlers sticking up habitat for the wildlife that above the heather. Along with the non-antlered hinds (females), in their russet- thrives there. Heather is coloured coats, they blend in to the moorland. If you watch them for a while, there are seen at its best after the always more there than first glanced. (For more information on deer-spotting, see 'glorious 12th' (the 12th of middle image, right). August) when the flowers t Millstone grit: The Gritstone Edges were once extensively quarried for the rough, turn the drab moor to © Eastern Moors Partnership coarse stone they are made of. Remnants of discarded round millstones can be found vibrant shades of purple. around the edges, giving the stone its common name, millstone grit. Many corn and textile mills were sited here.

Directions 1. From Curbar Gap car park, head east through a gate on a vehicle track. 2. As the track forks, take the right fork towards Sandyford Brook and cross the brook over a bridge, with the drystone walled fields on your left. 3. Climb the steep bank, following the wall on your left to the top of the bank and the corner of the wall. 4. At the corner of the wall, a well-trodden path leads you north along White Edge. 5. A deviation to the trig point on the right provides a great place to spot red deer across the expanse of Big Moor, with the redundant Barbrook Reservoir in the background. 6. Continue for some distance along White Edge to the hole in the wall. Turning left, a redundant drystone wall leads from here through fields down to the Grouse Inn.

7. Have a stop at the Grouse, but don't dally too long, as we are only half- © Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey. All rights reserved. OS licence no. AL100023974 way round. The next section leads you across the fields, behind the National Trust car park at Haywood. 8. From Haywood car park, head south across a small brook and carefully Distance, terrain and accessibility cross the main road to a gate opposite that leads to Froggatt Edge. 9. A wooded track leads to another gate, preceded by another brook. As Allow 3 hours for this 6 mile (10km) walk. There are one or two steep sections and the woodland opens out, with views across to the limestone of the White the paths can be narrow and stony in places.

Peak, a small stone circle can be found on the left. Dogs welcome. Please keep on lead from 1 March to 31 July, and under close 10. Follow the track along the full length of Froggatt and Curbar Edges. control at other times. No dog bins, so please take dog litter home. Once famous for millstones, now known as great places to rock climb. 11. At the end of Curbar Edge, a small gate leads back to the car park at Curbar Gap.

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