How to Find the What to Do Off the Trails Visit the picturesque towns and villages High Peak & Tissington Trails close to the Trails for sight-seeing, gift shopping and refreshments. Huddersfield A616 M1 Where to Stay/Eat and Drink 20 Barnsley There are many great places around the M63 Oldham Doncaster trails to eat, drink or stay. Contact the 37 local Tourist Information Centres at : Manchester A628 A6102 Rotherham Bakewell: 01629 813227 11 3 Glossop 20 M67 34 8 A57 Ashbourne: 01335 343666 Stockport M18 32 Buxton: 01298 25106 M6 A6 A625 Sheffield Matlock: 01629 583388 19 A621 Buxton A54 A619 Matlock Bath: 01629 55082. Macclesfield A6 A617Chesterfield Over 30 miles of Look at the PDNPA or DCCCS websites or Bakewell 29 18 relaxing countryside trails. ask for information about places to eat and A53 Mansfield A61 M1 drink at the Trails Information Centres. 17 A5012 Dovedale Matlock Leek A615 16 A53 A52 28 A515 A6 Access for All A610 A610 Ashbourne 26 A38 Nottingham Most of the length of the A52 A52 25 Trails is suitable for people with Stoke on Derby disabilities. They are level and Trent DERBY have a variety of surfacing materials, mostly compacted and reasonably firm Motorway Railway Peak District National Park NOTE : there are some steep Further Information inclines and dips where bridges used to be, so plan your route Trails Information and Cycle Hire centres: carefully (please refer to the map). All toilets on the Middleton Top 01629 823204 High Peak Junction Workshops 01629 822831 Trails are suitable for disabled people except those at Parsley Hay 01298 84493 High Peak Junction Workshops. Ashbourne (Cycle Hire only) 01335 343156 How to Visit the Trails By Public Transport Or contact as appropriate: Peak District National Park Authority, Access to the Tissington Trail is by the daily Baslow Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire DE45 1AE Ashbourne-Buxton 442 bus. The southern end of the Tel: 01629 816200 or visit their website on: High Peak Trail is readily accessible using the www.peakdistrict-npa.gov.uk Manchester - Matlock - Derby - Nottingham Transpeak Derbyshire County Council, (TP) or Bakewell - Derby (Trent R61/Stagecoach 61) Countryside Service, Middleton Top Visitor Centre, daily bus services. You can catch trains daily from Middleton by Wirksworth, Derbyshire DE4 4LS Matlock and Derby to Cromford railway station, Tel: 01629 823204, or visit their website on: www.derbyshire.gov.uk which is 1 mile from High Peak Junction. Details of services can be obtained from the National Travel Line 0870 6082608 and Derbyshire Public Transport website, www.derbysbus.net Discovering the High Peak & Tissington Trails Tissington Trail Events on the Trails The High Peak Trail runs for 171/2 miles from High Join in, as an individual, group or school, special Peak Junction, near Cromford to Dowlow 6 miles countryside events and activities organised by the south of Buxton. At Parsley Hay it is joined from the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) and south by the Tissington Trail, which runs for 13 miles Why Not Bike It! the Derbyshire County Council Countryside Service from Ashbourne. Visitors wishing to (DCCCS). These include guided walks, cycle rides, From Track to Trail explore the Trails tours of Middleton Top Engine House and High Peak by cycle may hire Junction Workshops (see Further Information). The High Peak and Tissington Trails were formerly cycles. Free cycle hire leaflets are available from all the Cromford and High Peak, and the Ashbourne Organised events, such as sponsored walks, need Information Centres, or email: permission from the PDNPA or the DCCCS. Buxton railway lines. [email protected] The Cromford and High Peak Line, was a very early How to keep safe on the Trails railway built between 1825-30 on canal principles. The Ashbourne - Buxton Line was built at the end The traffic free Trails are used by cycles, walkers and of the great age of railway building. Both lines were horse riders. Please consider other users at all times. closed, for the most part by 1967 and re-opened as Please do not race or gallop along the trail. Trails by 1971. Cyclists give way to pedestrians - keep to the left of the How to Use the Trails trail and overtake others in single file. Please ring your bell or give a warning when approaching others from You can walk, cycle or ride a horse on the trails all behind, so that they will know that you are there. year round. Why not create your own circular route by incorporating the trails into the existing network What to see on the Trails of public footpaths, bridleways and roads, using the Visitors can enjoy fantastic scenic views through the White Peak Ordnance Survey map, (Outdoor Leisure limestone countryside of the White Peak. Visit in 24). Use circular walks leaflets available at Middleton spring and summer to see the wild flowers which Top and High Peak Junction Workshops Information attract many birds and insects. Centres. You can also glimpse the railway's past at the 'old wharfs', 'engine houses' and ‘workshops’. Look out Cromford & High Peak railway, Friden. Hartington Signal box for sculpted benches and the mural at Friden brickworks. Enjoy an audio tour at High Peak Junction Workshops. Who Manages the Trails? Find out more by reading The Trails are managed the Trail interpretation by Wardens and panels and visiting Rangers employed by the Trails PDNPA and the Information DCCCS. You may see Centres. them drystone walling, fencing and managing woodland. They are knowledgeable about the Trails and the Mole carving on the surrounding areas so please ask Tissington Trail at for any assistance you need. Ruby Wood Buxton (6 miles) ( ) End of High Peak Trail 1.5 To Bakewell B5055 Monyash Hurdlow A515 P HIGH PEAK & TISSINGTON TRAILS 2 Parsley Hay P WC Newhaven Tunnel 2 2.5 Hartington Friden P P WC Hartington B5054 Ruby Wood Biggin Matlock l i To Bakewell a r 2.5 T n Matlock Bath o H t 5 ig A6 g Minninglow h n i P s s e i P a T k Cromford Wharf WC B5056 P T ra il Cromford High Peak Junction A5012 C r om P WC for 6.5 Black Rocks d Canal 1.5 To Ambergate, Derby Parwich P WC 1 Middleton Top End of Alsop P WC High Peak Trail P Hopton B5035 3 Tunnel Wirksworth Brassington B5023 B5056 Tissington Bradbourne P WC 1.5 Trail WC Toilet Main Road Information Point Thorpe A515 Minor Road Cycle Hire P Carsington Reservoir Green Lane Pub Tunnel Cafe/Refreshments B5035 2 View Point Steep Incline Picnic Site P Car Park Waymarked Routes Mapleton Lane start from here Distances shown in miles between red circles. P WC 0.25 Tunnel End of You are advised NOT to cycle down inclines Tissington Trail Ashbourne.