A Walk at Tideswell

Leader: Jenny Matthias
Distance: 11+ Miles approx
Total Height Gain/Descent:2140 ft

A Walk Route - click to enlarge



wood carving early in the walk

This walk is 'down dales and up a hill'. Tideswell is in the Derbyshire Dales and is home to the 'Cathedral of the Peaks'. The church of St John the Baptist was built in the 1300's and is worth a visit if we have time on our return.

We will leave Tidza as it is locally known traveling SW passed the sewage works across the road into Tideswell Dale, this has a good path with lots of foliage which might be something to do with all the rain!!

entrance to Tideswell Dale


Tideswell Dale

We then head for Litton Mill in Miller's Dale. This Mill has a notorious history. Orphans were brought from London and put to work, badly fed, treated and housed. Many died of disease and malnutrition. Now of course there are fancy flats there.

Cressbrook Mill

We start our climb from there up to and across the Monsal Trail and onto Preistlees Nature reserve. Then we follow a track through Brushfield. Here we will get the best views if the weather is kind to us. As we drop steeply down we take a bridle path which brings us to Monsal Viaduct. We follow the old railway line until we drop down to Cressbrook,(having passed Water-cum-Jolly Dale) where there is another old mill converted into flats. 

 
Following the road through trees we come to some cottages called Ravensdale as we enter a very muddy Cressbrook Dale, another nature reserve.

We continue past Tansley Dale to see Peter's Stone before turning towards Litton.

Tony below Peter's Stone

We will walk Litton Edge down to Conjoint Lane and follow the road back into Tideswell past the church.

Although this is not a difficult walk it is long and up and down Dales.

Breeding Pink Sheep here