Cromford 28th August

I wanted to find a walk which isn’t to far to drive to the start, with some uphill and good views. This definitely fits the bill. It only took me 20 minutes to get to Cromford Wharf car park. So just a short 4 mile walk. Over the A6 to Cromford Market place. Around the mill pond and then about 100 yards on the main road. Left onto

Bedhouse Lane

just past the Bell Inn and then follow the footpath up towards Black Rock.  The walk I was following (AA 1000 walks in the UK) suggested I took the right path at a fork in the footpath, but this just seemed to take me to the front drive of a house in front of the woods. I took the left hand fork and this took me through the woods and out at the High Peak trail below Black Rocks. I just followed the high peak trail back down to high peak junction and then back to the car park via the canal. I can see a couple of ways of adding a few more miles to this to make it a more substantial walk. The nice thing about this is that I could do this on a summer evening after work.

4 miles OL 24 White Peak