Perfect day for a walk – dry , slightly overcast with the sun breaking through every now and then.
Starting from Dovedale car park walked up the dale to the turn off to the left to Stanshope. Steady climb up Hall Dale to Stanshop.e I had worked up a fair old sweat by then so off came one layer of clothing. The footpath from Stanshope to Alstonefield crosses the top of Mill Dale , so once across the road there was a tidy climb up Harry’s Bank. In Alstonefield I couldn’t find the footpath I was looking for so walked a few hundred yards out of the village on the road and then took the first footpath on the left which took me to Narrowdale. My navigation went a bit pear shaped at this point. The path took me along the side of Narrowdale hill and there should have been a right hand fork leading down towards the start of Wolfescote Dale. Instead I ended up at a derelict farm (Field House Farm). The footpath off to the left fizzled out after a few hundred yards, so I spent the next twenty minutes or so tramping across farm fields looking for it. Eventually a couple of walkers helped me out and at that point I was only about a hundred yards to the start of Wolfescote dale.
The rest of the walk was all the way down the River Dove back to Dovedale – Wolfescote Dale - Mill Dale – Dovedale. Spectacular and beautiful scenery. Given that it only takes half an hour to drive to Dovedale I should be coming out here more often.
About 13 miles OS OL24
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| Hall Dale |
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| Cave between Mill Dale and Dovedale |
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| Wolfscote Dale |
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