Anyway. We walked on a narrow path worn through the deep bracken paralleling the road heading towards the Fox House pub. Then we spotted a bit of a path on the opposite side of the road where it would be much easier to walk without the damp ling grass and chest-high bracken so we crossed over and followed the path on the road verge as far as Burbage Bridge.
Here we crossed over to the opposite side again and went through a small gate and crossed the Burbage Brook using boulders in the stream bed and again were back in the chest-high bracken!
This was only for a short distance as we soon reached the wide track which runs along the bottom of Burbage Rocks. After following the track for another short distance, we started to make our way to the top of the edge of Burbage Moor via a small sheep track which passed a circular unfinished gritstone trough abandoned on the ground. Not very far away there was another abandoned gritstone trough, this time a large rectangular one.
We made our way along the path following the edge of Burbage Moor as far as Upper Burbage Bridge where there is another small car park as well as an ice cream van! Of course Karen and I had to have an ice cream!
From the bridge, we crossed to the other side of the brook and then made our way along the opposite side of the valley heading for the top of Higgar Tor. After having a good look at the surrounding views, especially over towards the Hope Valley and beyond to Kinder and Bleaklow, we mad our way to the opposite side of the tor and then down a narrow path to the moor below and then headed towards a large sheep fold which we passed to soon reach Over Owler Tor and then along a well-worn path passing the obvious gritstone tor called Mother Cap to then drop back down to the car park.
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