stopping at a climbing hut over the road from the Robin hood inn and will be doing a loop out towards taddington.
I'm looking to avoid the busy road between Baslow and Bakewell so wondered if there's a route that's doable across the Chatsworth estate?
Road / gravel / MTB?
There's a route out through Edensor, the incredibly chintzy little village within the Chatsworth estate, takes you onto a minor road then over into Bakewell.
Or if you go further along the road that runs through the estate (which in itself can be quite unpleasantly busy at peak times), there's a BW heading up through the field, sort of SW, it climbs up to a wood on the ridge then descends through that, turns right and traverses into Bakewell. It'll probably be a total swamp at the moment.
Probably the quietest is actually to go from Baslow to Hassop (quiet back lane), touch the main road very briefly then go towards Great Longstone then double back on yourself along the Monsal Trail which takes you straight into Bakewell. Avoids Chatsworth altogether which, on a weekend, is a good thing cos it gets rammed!
Can definitely get through Chatsworth but it doesn't take you to Bakewell and some of it is cheeky. You'd end up over towards Beeley/Rowsley and then it's easy to get off road to Bakewell.
I'll try and piece something together later.
Why Taddington - going there for a reason, or think it looks like good riding? There's much better riding in various directions from the Robin Hood
The part where it says Sheffrec SPOCCO is the closest to Robin Hood off road towards Chatsworth but there's a big gate to get over. This heatmap is for all sports (so includes walking). The 'gravel'/mtb route goes across to 'all across the purple heather' but that will be a bog at the moment and brings you out onto a (quiet) country road. You can head down to Hellbank but a bit cheeky and from there down into Beeley, across to Calton Lees and over to Bakewell
Why Taddington - going there for a reason, or think it looks like good riding? There's much better riding in various directions from the Robin Hood
I was going to say that too. Unless there's good reason to go to Taddington there's better riding to be had in the area.
Road/Gravel/MTB?
gravel/road. doing part of the lost lanes loop but edited it to a 30 miler
it's a family ride so no looking for sick trailz, more of a tour de cafe/pubs en route, Taddington will just be the lunch stop, route heads out of Bakewell to monsal head then up onto monsal dale, across to pub then loops round to high peak trail .
like i said, we're staying in a hut which is opposite the robin hood inn
For gravel/road I think you will have to accept going down the main road to Baslow then take the A619/B6012 into Chatsworth as far as Edensor. Then as mentioned above the track heading West to join the lane down past Bakewell golf club to the Monsal Trail.
thank you