So we dropped in at
Outside in Hathersage so that I could but a pair (which wasn't a
waste as some pairs of socks I have are getting towards the end of
their life).
Since we had now
wasted some time and were heading away from home of we returned to
Hope, we changed our plans to walk in the Eyam Moor area from Sir
William Hill.
So, after parking up
on the rough track across Sir William Hill and putting on my new
socks and walking boots (which have a broken lace loop but I picked
up the wrong boots as well as forgetting my socks – D'oh!), we
walked the kilometre plus of track arriving at a junction with
tarmaced road.
From here we followed
another track with a soft, muddy surface as it dropped down to Nether
Bretton and a minor road.
After following this
road south-westwards for one or two hundred metres, we then followed
a public footpath which began on a drive belonging to a house next to
the road and then along the side of the house to a stile brining us
to some large fields.
The path continued
across the fields and then steeply down some muddy steps to soon
arrive at a small footbridge crossing the Bretton Brook.
On the other side of
the brook, the path continued upwards along a valley and then after
another stile, some more fields passing Cockey Farm to eventually
arrive at the small village or hamlet of Abney.
From here, we followed
a muddy path leading down Abney Clough to Stoke Ford and then after
crossing another footbridge, the route gradually rose to eventually
bring us to the top of the side of Bretton Clough and we stopped for
a short break in the shelter of a very small crag to get out of the
cold wind.
From here we made our
way along the path to reach the drystone-wall forming the boundary of
Eyam Moor where we crossed the wall using a stile and then crossed
the heathery and in parts wet moorland.
Soon we were back at
the wall running along side Sir William Hill Road where we started
our walk.
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