tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post499264616601613958..comments2024-03-29T11:20:22.205+00:00Comments on SWC - This Week's Walks: Sunday Walk - [Peak District Trip] Hathersage Circular via Bretton Clough and EyamAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11395064086819994526noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-31080985392808451072018-08-19T21:00:01.946+01:002018-08-19T21:00:01.946+01:003 of yesterday's walkers went on other adventu...3 of yesterday's walkers went on other adventures today, but we had 2 new ones turn up, so n=27 in w=low-clouds-with-some-sunny-breaks-and-some-drizzle. The route has plenty of ups and downs pre lunch, through tight wooded valleys or over rolling hills of pastoral land. The clouds kept getting lower as we approached the top of the Bretton Clough, to emerge on the edge of the big drop into the Hope Valley, with the Barrel Inn to the left. Half the group turned into the pub for a refresher (tables were all booked, so food was no option).<br />On along the edge and through a hanging wood to Great Hucklow, with plenty of signs of the old lead mines en route, well info panelled. About a handful had walked the shortcut and had managed to book a table for all lunchers at the third pub, The Bull Inn in Foolow. From there through small fields (lots of stone slab stiles) to Eyam, the plague village.<br />Lots of interest in Eyam, from plaques explaining the effects of the plague on individual houses' inhabitants to a real ale breweries' tap room to a café in the old buttery of Eyam Hall to preparations for a well dressing at the next weekend. The group had splintered into multiple sub-groups by now, and everyone made their way up to and across Eyam Moor at their pace. Heather, gorse, bracken and bilberries galore. A patchwork of colours with stunning scenery framing it: Higger Tor, Stanage and Froggatt edges, and the oh so green Hope Valley. <br />A glorious descent and about 15 reassembled at the Plough Inn for drinks and dinner. Most of the others had a train to catch back south...<br />Thomas Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01298846868417688062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13665817.post-37959626292721668442018-08-18T12:20:24.631+01:002018-08-18T12:20:24.631+01:00I am hoping to come on this walk from the West if ...I am hoping to come on this walk from the West if not raining too hard jfkAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com