Baslow and Curbar Edges

DATE 01.01.2022 | DISTANCE approx 10.8KM approx | HIGHEST POINT 334M

Posted by Matt | Filed under peak District

 

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New Years Day! It's become a tradition to hike on the 1st day of the year and i'll try and keep this up, work shift permitting. I'd done these edges some years ago but today we managed to find a less traveled cliff named Gardom's Edge.

 

we parked up in the village of baslow and made our way through yeld wood

in the raddowhole plantation

two footbridges in the raddowhole plantation.

Looking back to Baslow

approaching a small woodland below Gardom's Edge

on the OS map these are called Three Men

supposedly placed here in the eighteenth century in commemoration of three shepherds who died in the snow

the view from Gardom's Edge

looking back down to Baslow in the distance and Yeld Wood

another view from Gardom's edge

Wellington's Monument. We waited ages for a family to move on who were perched on the monument. We ended up giving up and taking a photo at the rear of the monument. I think several walkers were frustrated to not get a photo of the monument without the family blocking it.

Note: Like mountain summits, trig points etc, Consider other people who took the time to reach that feature. Take your photo and move aside.

Eagle Stone

Curbar Edge from Baslow Edge

 

A busy spot between these edges. I didn't realize just how popular a walk Curbar Edge is.

Catherine holding her freezing ears on Curbar Edge

The view back to Baslow Edge from Curbar Edge

Stone circle at Froggatt Edge

Descending through Froggatt Edge

Joining the river derwent near Froggatt Bridge. We then followed the river to the village of Curbar and back to Baslow along Gorsebank Lane.