Circuit Walk Around Wirksworth 2

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Follow the Countryside Code Walking Around Wirksworth Circuit Walks Respect, Protect, Enjoy! With a fascinating history, and a maze of back 2 Respect other people: streets to explore, Wirksworth is a thriving, vibrant • consider the local and welcoming place to live and visit. There are Around Wirksworth community and other plenty of cafés, coffee shops and pubs to help people enjoying the revive the weary walker. High Peak Junction - outdoors • leave gates and property The paths on this route may be Wirksworth - as you find them and follow rough and muddy at times, so be High Peak Junction paths, unless wider access is available prepared and wear appropriate Protect the natural environment: footwear. The route should be easy 4.75 miles High Peak Junction • leave no trace of your visit and take your to follow, and is waymarked with litter home "Circuit Walks around Wirksworth" • keep dogs under effective control discs. Ordnance Survey Outdoor Leisure Enjoy the outdoors: Map No. 24 is recommended to enhance your walk. • plan ahead and be prepared • follow advice and local signs How to Find High Peak Junction www.gov.uk/government/publications/ High Peak Junction car park is located near Lea the-countryside-code Bridge, just off the A6 at Cromford. Look out for the brown tourist signs. There is ample pay Cycle Hire and display parking, as well as toilet facilities and Do you prefer to cycle a seasonal shop selling refreshments and drinks. rather than walk? Visit our Cycle Hire Centre at Public Transport traveline Middleton Top. The High For details on public public transport info Peak Trail offers 17.5 transport in Derbyshire, 0871 200 22 33 traffic-free miles of visit: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/transport_roads/ cycling through beautiful public_transport countryside, and connects with the Tissington Trail at Parsley Hay. www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/ More Information countryside/access/cycling/cycle_hire or call If you need to find out more, please contact: 01629 533294. Middleton Top on 01629 533298, or Call Derbyshire on 01629 533190. Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site For information on all our Countryside Sites go to: High Peak Junction is in the heart www.derbyshire.gov.uk/leisure/countryside of this World Heritage Site. This international designation confirms If you have difficulty reading this leaflet, it can the outstanding importance of the be made available in other formats. Contact area as the birthplace of the factory system where, on . in the 18th century, water power was successfully Call Derbyshire 01629 533190 harnessed for textile production. All photographs are Derbyshire County Council owned and copyright. www.derwentvalleymills.org Photographs of the route by Aidan Rumble. Revised December 2016. www.derbyshire.gov.uk/countryside