David and Jacinta's Walks- 2023

 The Southern Gritstone Edges After a rather wet week, the weather forecast for Sunday was excellent, so we headed out early to Baslow. After a coffee at the pretty Café on the Green, we walked up the road and track, towards Wellington’s Monument. We have already seen its delights, so we struck out along Baslow Edge, towards Curbar. On a sunny Sunday, the place was crowded, with masses of dog walkers. As we approached Curbar Gap we came across the Curbar Highland Cattle. They're very used to humans and a lot of people were mingling with them but, in the past, there've been some nasty incidents with them so we passed by as quickly as we could. Curbar Cows We then walked onto Froggatt Edge which is always great; the views are brilliant and the sense of space is superb. We had a break and a snack above the edge. A break above Froggatt Edge Eventually, the walk comes down from Froggatt and across to the Grouse Inn (which we had visited on a previous walk back in April ). It takes ...

Chatsworth Park and Beeley Today called for a flat, familiar walk, with a nice coffee shop at the start. So we drove to Baslow, visited The Café on the Green and then walked from Chatsworth to Beeley and back. As ever, the first section is lovely. We spotted a heron: And there are great views of the great house: The bridge at Beeley Lodge Sheep and (in the far distance) deer were in abundance. Derbyshire's cleanest sheep, with the Black Sheep of the Family in the distance The village of Beeley is very pretty- clearly full of estate houses from Chatsworth- we were taken with Pig Lane and the evidence of pigsties. We sat in the churchyard and ate lunch and then meandered back to the start. 6.7 miles with 50m ascent.