It was one of Karen's
non-working Fridays, and I had taken the day off as it was the
remainder of my holiday entitlement for the year so we decided on
going for a walk.
With another day
seeming to remain cool and overcast, we parked in the small car park
at Gradbach first walked down the road next to a small stream which
was orange with ochre or something similar.
It was flowing into
the stream from a smaller tributary a few hundred metres along the
road near Manor Farm.
We retraced our steps
back along road and crossed a footbridge to follow footpath, part of
the Dane Valley Way, across a few fields then onto a minor road.
We walked a very short
way along the road then back following a footpath across more fields
passing a small but slightly derelict cottage gradually-rising and
then arrived at a cross-roads of footpaths where we followed the one
heading to the left which brought us after a while to a sandy track
which was a bridleway leading to Panniers Pool at Three Shires Head,
where we had been last week-end.
We sheltered in the
lee of the packhorse bridge from the cold wind and had a snack and
then followed back along the way we came to follow a lane leading
past Wicken Walls from where we again crossed several fields to
arrive at a minor road by Wildstone Rock after dropping down toa
small stream and footbridge and up the other side.
There was another
minor road which we followed just over a kilometre to a crossroads
where we kept on straight-ahead then followed a footpath to drop down
to Black Broom where we had lunch in a spot sheltered from the cold
wind.
Afterwards, we
followed along the back of the brook to the North-West where it
joined a bridleway at Roach End after going uphill for a while before
a sharp bend where it proceeded to now go back downhill to lead
through Forest Wood until we arrived at the chasm of Lud's Chrurch.
Our route took us
through this gloomy defile in the gritstone bedrock and after we
popped out the other side we continued along a path tot a hairpin
bend which then led down to arrive again at Black Brook.
After crossing the
brook on a footbridge, we followed a path along the brook and passed
the impressive old mill building of Gradbach Youth Hostel.
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