340 July Walks from Hathersage

Our next walks will be from

Hathersage

Hathersage is an attractive village in the Hope Valley area of the Peak National Park - popular and well served with pubs. restaurants and shops (especially outdoor equipment!), the village is well worth a visit at any time of year. Surrounded by dramatic hills and gritstone edges, there is great walking and climbing everywhere.

Saturday 13th July 2013

0800hrs prompt from the short stay car park

Hathersage Church

Hathersage is one of the more interesting villages in the area, with historical associations to Robin Hood and the Eyre family. The village centres around a road junction above the River Derwent, where the road to Sheffield branches off the route which follows the Derwent downstream. The ancient centre of the village was just above the church, which itself stands above and to the north of the modern village centre. On a knoll next to it there is an earthwork called Camp Green, which is probably Danish in origin.

Hathersage is a popular centre for walkers and rock-climbers, for on its east side the village is overlooked by moorland and a line of gritstone edges of which Stanage Edge is the largest. There are also spectacular tors, such as Higgar Tor, and the enigmatic hillfort at Carl Wark, which has so far defied archaeologists' attempts to date it. Several of the edges were quarried and the area was a major source of millstones for grinding corn and metals.........Click for more

There will be three walks:

• A Walk led by: Jenny Mathias
• B Walk led by: Beverley Kelly
• C Walk led by:Marion Young