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  • White peak route taking in wormhill, millers dale, chelmorten, priescliffe??
  • racing_ralph
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    Anyone link to it?

    racing_ralph
    Free Member

    Millers Dale Circuit. 19 miles
    A pleasant but quite stiff route around some of Derbyshires deep dales. It seems you are always going up steeply or down steeply and this makes the route seem longer than the distance suggests.
    START – Topley Pike on Buxton-Bakewell Road
    (at the large layby halfway up the hill a few hundred yards from Topley Pike)

    1. Head down the road towards Buxton and take the first track that doubles back left after a mile and climb steeply, crossing the railway, and then very steeply to emerge in the beautiful hamlet of King Sterndale.
    2. Take the little tarmac road for half a mile to where a bridleway goes straight on at a sharp right hand bend.
    3. Follow the track, through 2 gates, into a grassy field. Head diagonally left across the unmarked field to a gate just over halfway along the wall and continue diagonally across the next field to a gate almost in the far corner on the top of a cliff.
    4. The singletrack leads right along the clifftop and then plunges steeply and awkwardly down with a sharp bend at the bottom to reach a small gate on the valley floor.
    5. Follow the valley up, through a farmyard and join a road.
    6. Follow the road left for a mile to just over the brow of the hill where a bridleway leads off right through a metal gate (unmarked) across a grassy field next to a wall to a gate by some trees. After this gate the track is easy to follow but stay low where it splits and drop to a small gate at Chelmorton.
    7. After the gate turn left up a stony track that turns grassy and then flattens out with some weaving singletrack until reaching a wide stone track.
    8. Turn left and follow this track to a gate through which a fast downhill weaves it's way to another gate and even wider track. Turn right and follow this track straight on very fast until meeting the road at the Waterloo Inn.
    9. Just after the Inn on the left a tarmac road left leads down to a junction.
    10. Turn left and then fork right onto the obvious track. This hardpack track degenerates into a split track and then singletrack, all going down very fast for a long way before joining a concrete road, still steep with sharp bends, until meeting a wide road.
    11. Go right and down again to a river bridge and either go left up to the Wriggly Tin cafe in 200 yards or straight on through Millers Dale under the iron railway bridge and bear left up the first road climbing very steeply for quite a way before flattening out pleasantly. A few hundred yards after the entrance to holiday cottages is a track between stone walls leading off left by a tree.
    12. This winds back and forth between fields and then joins another similar track where you go right. After a further mile the track finishes at a small tarmac road facing a house.
    13. Go left and down steeply to the bottom of the valley and just after starting to climb there is a footpath off left and 20 yards past it an unmarked bridleway through a metal gate that cuts across the hillside to join the footpath at a small gate then following the obvious narrow walled track. Keep swinging to the right until meeting a road at Wormhill.
    14. Go right and then immediately left up into Old Hall Farm yard making for a gate in the top left hand corner of the yard. After the gate keep next to the right wall and follow the track obviously through several gates and a grassy field and then eventually meet a tarmac road.
    15. Turn left and follow the road to it's end and through the Mosley Farm yard until faced with 2 gates on a grassy right hand bend just after the farmyard.
    16. Take the lower gate and down the wide grassy track that turns into a grassy singletrack switchback ride down steeply and under a railway bridge to join the river bank.
    17. Straight on brings you to a footbridge at Blackwell Cottages across this and straight on very steeply up the track between wooden huts following it over the bridge and steeply up to join the road. Turn right and the Start is just along on your right.

    nbt
    Full Member

    Done it a couple of times, but not for several years as that specific loop. I think this was the last time we rode that loop

    http://www.bikemagic.com/trail-news/are-you-prepared/3043.html

    or at least tried to…

    Actually, no I tell a lie, we have done it since then, not for about 5 years though. Nice ride, worth doing

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