Kinder Scout

We had planned a trip to North Wales but last night the weather forecast was dire so Karen and I decided to stay at home and go walking today on Kinder Scout.
We started at the small car park in Upper Booth and walked up via Crowden Brook. There had been a couple of very light rain showers on the way, but when we were nearly at the top a heavy shower began.
The plan was to have a look at a cave – really a gap in a pile of gritstone boulders called The Belfry.
From the top of Crowden Brook, we followed the path along the edge of the plateau, threading our way through the oddly-shaped gritstone boulders known as The Woolpacks, eventually skirting below Edale Rocks and Swines Back then along the bridleway past Edale Cross towards Kinderlow End. We then followed a path which contoured around the other side and after checking the location of The Belfry with my GPS, which I had updated with the grid reference last night, we found it lay some 300 metres up a steep slope of heather and scrub.
We located a small gap between some boulders and Karen got her Petzl headtorch out and clambered in through the gap to find a reasonably sized void with a rift between boulders descending below. As the entrance was wet and dirty, we didn't go any farther but then the feature isn't very large anyway.
We had had a quick lunch break earlier at the end of The Woolpacks and as there was a sunny period while we were at The Belfry, we sat in the sun and finished off our lunch.
Afterwards we continued up the short distance to the top of Kinderlow end following an obvious path and then along a path improved with slabs of rock heading towards Edale Rocks then dropping down to meet the junction with the bridleway past Edale Cross.
Here we turned left and then got to the top of the path leading downwards back towards Upper Booth, called Jacob's Ladder.
After a stop at the small packhorse bridge we had a quick break to strip off jackets and then continued back towards where we had left the car.