As we reached the road, we crossed over to the other side and then followed a route across the moorland to arrive at one end of the gritstone crag, Millstone Edge.
We followed a path along the foot of the crag and stopped for a quick break next to the crag sitting on a boulder and had a hot drink.
Continuing onwards, we reached the road beyond Millstone Edge at Surprise View and after dropping down the road back towards Hathersage for a few hundred metres, we passed through a stile in the wall next to a gate and then found ourselves on a wide grass-covered track which once used to service the nearby quarry.
At one part of the track we passed many finished millstones made of the quarried gritstone which had been left when the quarry ceased working and never used.
The track led through a silver birch wood and then to another quarry at Bolehill where there was an inclined plane or steep slope leading down to the railway below near Grindleford.
We followed the steep inclined plane for a few hundred metres then along a footpath leading towards some houses in Gindleford near the railway station.
After crossing the railway line using a bridge, we continued through a few fields to reach on bank of the River Derwent.
We then followed the sometimes muddy path back to Hathersaage.
Walking up an old track
Higgar Tor straight ahead
A section of Millstone Edge
Old Mill Stones
Silver Birch Wood
Looking down the Inclined Plane at Bolehill Quarry
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