C Walk at Bakewell

Walk Leader: Norman Jones

Distance: 6 miles app

Total Ascent/descent: 830ft
Height Gain about 500ft

The walk includes undulating parkland and woods, it's 6 miles long with a height gain of 500ft. Generally good underfoot.

We leave Bakewell in a south-easterly direction on a minor road and go under a bridge which is the southern end of the Monsal Trail. The road becomes a track, rising gently through undulating countryside and turning onto a woodland path. This rises steeply for about 400 yards, then becomes a flatter woodland route before reaching Carlton Pastures an ara of open parkland which soon slopes downwards. 

We continue on this parkland, which borders the Duke of Devonshire's Chatsworth Estate, for about a mile to join the Bakewell/Edensor minor road. This is our steep downhill route back into the centre of Bakewell for refreshments.