A Walk Up Lose Hill

Karen had a sore neck and shoulder from a minor fall from Thursday evening's trip in Old Tor Mine and decided to rest so I drove over to Hope and parked on the road leading to the train station.
I then entered the station and crossed the bridge leading to the platform on the other side and then followed a path leading to the right along the tracks for a short distance then through a gate into fields heading towards Win Hill.

Lose Hill in the distance

After a short distance, I met a second path crossing from right to left and followed this. After passing through more fields and following a lane then past a farm and a camp site. Unfortunately there was some sort of running event going on at the same time and I was meeting runners coming in the opposite direction. Mostly this just meant a lot of “hellos” as they passed but when the path narrowed at various places, I had to wait at the side until they had passed.

Approaching the summit

Soon I was following steeper ground leading gradually up to the summit of Win Hill. Unfortunately it was cloudy and the view along the Great Ridge was partly obscured with mist.
From Lose Hill the route followed the top of the Great Ridge across Back Tor and then down a path leading down eventually to Castleton joining the road near the TSG's Chapel.

Castelton High Street

I bought a cheese and tomato sandwich and a drink at the shop near The Cheshire Cheese and sat on the bench circling the tree next to the war memorial in the Square and ate the sandwiches.
After a quick wander around, I headed back past the shop where I bought the sandwiches and then along the road for a short distance then along a track leading to the right with a footpath sign which followed the river alongside and gradually narrowed until after passing a stile I entered some fields.

There was a path through the fields with the Hope Cement Works not far away, which eventually led tot he road from Bradwell at Brough after passing through the site of the old Roman Fort called Navio. The remainder of the route was to follow this road to the main road connecting Hope and Hathersage then to turn left and walk the short distance back to the minor road leading to where I had started nest to Hope railway station.