Lose Hill from Hope

It was already raining as we were leaving Winster and continued to do this on and off all day until it eventually simply rained without stopping!
Starting off from Hope, next to the church, then set off down Edale Road and turned left and then onto a footpath by the school leading across several fields and then across a footbridge over the railway and into further fields.
Eventually we reached a field which rose for a while to reach a stile by Lose Hill Farm. We sat on a grassy bank by the stile and had a snack then continued onwards rising up Lose Hill to arrive at the topograph on the summit. A man from another group of walkers coming in the opposite direction showed us the memorial plaque affixed to some rocks just a few metres lower on the Northern side.
Up to now there had been several short showers but now on the Great Ridge, there was also quite a lot of wind. I had been wearing my Tilley T3 Hat to keep the rain off, which it had been doing admirably, but it was now so windy, I took it off and wore my Rab Bergen Jacket's hood for a while.
Continuing along the Great Ridge as far as Back Tor, we quit the ridge via a descending path to reach Hollowford Road which we followed into Castleton.
We paused for a few minutes at a bench next to the bus stop to have a drink while Karen made use of the Public Convenience and then continued along the road towards Hope where we left the road to follow a path along the Peakshole Water stream to join the minor road from Pindale into Hope.
On the way home we first stopped off at Monyash for a meal at the café then stopped off at the Orpheus hut to wash and leave a rope Karen had used last week for her trip to Water Icicle Cavern.

Plaque at summit of Lose Hill