Sunday, 14 July 2013

Grindleford Station to Longshaw Estate

Another hot day was promised in the forecast so we chose a walk with an appreciable amount of shade.
We started off at the café at the old Grindleford train station, starting off with a brew of tea.
Then we left the café by the steep set of stone steps leading to the road from Grindleford to the A625 and after crossing the road, another st of rough steps up through the woods to the Longshaw Estate.
We made our way through the parkland on the estate to the old hunting lodge where we had a snack at the National Trust café.
Snack over, returned partway along our earlier route on the estate then veered off to the A625 at the top of the Padley Gorge where it was absolutely packed with picknickers and kids playing in the stream and there was a total of three ice cream vans parked at the roadside.

We bought and ice cream and then followed the gorge path back down to Grindleford café.

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