B Walk at Bakewell

Walk Leader: George Mann

Distance: 8.5 Miles app

Total Ascent/Descent: 1025ft

approximate route, subject to alteration

Our walk today takes us initially alongside the River Wye before passing through a housing estate then up past the cemetery on our way towards Norton Barn Farm and the Village of Over Haddon. 

From there we cross over a series of fields heading for the village of Sheldon. We stop on the way to have a look around the  preserved buildings of the Magpie Mine one of the few reminders of the extensive lead and fluorspar mining that took place in the Peak District.

The Magpie Mine

Skirting the lower end of Sheldon we proceed downhill to Sheepwash Bridge in the village of Ashford in the Water and from there partially alongside the river our path leads us back to Bakewell. 

Looking towards Bakewell after Sheldon

There are about twenty stiles to negotiate the majority fairly easy