Monday January 2nd
Stanage End, Stanedge Pole, Ughill and Moscar It was Bank Holiday Monday and we decided to do a walk that we had not done in 2022- so something of a winning combination. We parked at Stanage End and walked up to the end of Stanage Edge. It was an amazingly clear, sunny day with great views far and wide. The Kinder Plateau- from Win Hill to Fairbrook Naze We walked along, past High Neb, and turned eastwards past Stanedge Pole pole and down to Redmires Reservoir. This area was very popular, not surprising given its nearness to Sheffield. Our route turned northwards across some fields and then across rough moorland, crossing a stream and the Sheffield road just before the incongruously named Surrey Farm. Stream crossing before Surrey Farm We crossed several fields up to the isolated Crawshaw Lodge with its Quaker cemetery (not Jewish, as David had mis-remembered). It would be good to go in and explore it sometime. The noisy peacocks that are sometimes around the lodge were not there...