A Walk from Calver

As we were starting today's walk from the village of Calver, it made sense to have breakfast again at the Outside café at Calver Crossroads.

Afterwards, we walked along the Bakewell road towards Hassop and after then walking down a side road, we followed a public footpath passing some houses and gardens to arrive in pasture land.

The route than led across the slightly muddy fields due to the melting snow and above freezing temperatures until we crossed a stile and began the steep and slippery walk up the slope leading to the ridge following above the Bakewell road with views over the adjacent Bramley Wood with views across Calver village below to the north and Baslow further away to the south-east.

There is a path along the top of the ridge passing the edge of the steeply-banked wood on one side and a gritstone drystone-wall on the other with a short section of low arched passage through thisk rhododendron bushes.

Continuing along the ridge, we dropped a short distance to cross Bramley Lane, then again along the ridge-top path now passing Bank Wood.

We had a brief stop to have a hot drink here then continued onwards to another lane, this time School Lane, then along the Bakewell road again to arrive at Hassop where we passed the entrance to Hassop Hall and walked up a rising lane for about 750 metres before leaving the lane to cross a field planted with a crop looking like brussels sprouts or something very similar, following a very muddy route where a public footpath crossed the field until we arrived at the hamlet of Rowland.

After following s short section of minor road we arrived at a rough land rover track which led us towards Deep Rake quarry, taking avoiding action as a group of trial bikes roared past, until we arrived eventually at a path leading down slope across a field back near where we started.