The unusually wet winter of 2023/24 has left the ground in many parts of the Peak District very wet and muddy. As a result of this, we have been forced to temporarily revise or postpone a number of our walks, and this walk has had to be temporarily suspended until ground conditions improve. Please see below and here for more details.
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View along the "Great Ridge" from Mam Tor
This family-friendly circular walk is a true Peak District classic and one of our most popular walks, taking in some of the most famous hills and views in Derbyshire. In 2018, a survey of thousands of walkers by the Ordnance Survey and The Ramblers for the TV programme Britain's Favourite Walks: Top 100 rated part of the route of this walk as the tenth most popular walk in the whole of the UK.
The walk begins and ends in the village of Edale, home to the start of the Pennine Way. From there, the route includes the "Great Ridge" that separates the Vale of Edale from the Hope Valley, the viewpoint at Lose Hill, the village of Castleton, world-famous as the home of the unique Blue John stone, plus one of the most famous closed roads in the UK and the ancient hill fort of Mam Tor. While it does involve a total of 2,800 feet of ascent, this is still a very family-friendly walk. However, due to the exposed nature of the terrain on the "Great Ridge", the sometimes changeable weather and the significant erosion of some of the paths, you will need warm and waterproof clothing and a good pair of walking boots.
When is this walk available?
This walk is temporarily suspended until further notice. The unusually wet winter of 2023/24 has left the ground below Hollin's Cross and Lose Hill in an extremely wet and muddy condition. This mud is deep, very liquid, and has been churned up by the action of farm livestock and walkers. Sections of the route of this walk have become impassable with any degree of safety due to the extremely muddy and slippery conditions, and the lack of any practical diversionary route means it is not possible to reroute the walk past the problem areas. As a result, we have been forced to temporarily suspend the walk on safety grounds until such time as the ground conditions improve.
We hope to be able to reintroduce this walk back into the schedule once ground conditions have improved with the warmer and drier weather of late spring and early summer. However, this is all very dependant on the weather, and so we cannot give a firm date for when this walk will return to the schedule. Please keep checking back here for more news as and when we are able to give it. Is this walk Covid-secure?
At Derbyshire Heritage Walks we follow all current government and industry guidelines, and all of our guides have been fully vaccinated. Therefore you can be confident that this walk is as Covid-secure as we can possibly make it. Details of how we do this can be found here.
Will we have the exclusive services of the guide?
All of our open and scheduled walks are open to all. If you book onto either of these types of walk, then there is a chance that there may well be other people on the walk with you. If you wish to have the exclusive services of the guide, you MUST book a Personal Walking Guide.
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