Goyt Valley

First Karen and I met up with Keith at the café in Monyash for breakfast. He was planning on a trip into Water Icicle Close Cavern to sort out the bicycle-based hauling winch and tarpaulin cover so that he and Pete Collins could return to digging on his return from Thailand.

After breakfast, we left Keith to his caving while we drove to Buxton and then to the small car park at Derbyshire Bridge in the Goyt Valley.

From the car park we walked for a kilometre or so along the minor road leading to the A537 near the Cat and Fiddle pub. After walking past the pub, we left the road to follow a rough track and after about 800 metres just past Stake Farm to follow a descending path passing Stake Clough to reach Deep Clough and a small footbridge crossing the stream to a path junction.

We sat on a ruined drystone-wall to have a snack and then continued on the path leading northwards to another small footbridge crossing another stream flowing down Berry Clough.

There is a path leading up the clough and we followed this to a path junction where a path led us south to reach a rough vehicle track.

The track the led us for a kilometre westwards back to the car park.