Calver

After breakfast at the café in Outside at Calver crossroads, Karen and I followed a route through the quiet back roads of the village of Calver away from the busy roads and noisy traffic. Following a steeply rising path worn in dry clayey mud, we arrived on the path following the top of the ridge in Bramley Wood with views back to Calver and across to the gritstone edges of Curbar and Froggat Edges.
We followed the path passing rhododendron bushes, gorse bushes and patches of wood sorrel leading to another wood named Bank Wood. This eventually brought us to a minor road called School Lane which we followed down to the village of Hassop.
A short distance along the main road led to a track which we followed for about 500 metres then sat on some rocks next to the track by a gate and ate our lunch listening to a nearby woodpecker. Afterwards, we continued on our way leading through Birchill Bank Wood and across a field leading to the busy main road, the A619.
We followed the narrow verge along this busy road and thankfully left it through a stile into a field and left the roar of traffic behind as we followed the uphill field to arrive at a stile in the corner.
Again we came across the sad occurrence of a sick lamb which was laying on its side with its head back and its eyes blinking as its mother stood by. Of course there was nothing to be done, so we followed over the stile into the next field and after a third field, we arrived at the minor road, Wheatlands Lane.
We turned right along this lane for 100 metres or so before again back to a series of fields and then onto Bramley Lane by Bubnell Farm.
The long distance path, The Derwent Way, follows this lane for a while and we did the same, following the Derwent Way through fields and then by some woods with views of the River Derwent a short distance below us, passing very close to the river at a sharp bend with ewes and lambs on the opposite bank. We continued along the river bank and before long left the river and the Derwent Way to cross a few more fields then a short alleyway between hedges back into Calver.
I wore Berghaus shirt and trousers, Asolo Fugitive GTX boots and Osprey Kestrel 38 rucksack.