PLAP 8 Route Peak District Drive Derbyshire (10 miles) Print

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 1
Follow down the track leading from the car park and turn right when you meet the road

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 2
Continue to follow this road for approximately 1.5 miles until reaching the B5056. Cross over carefully (fast traffic) and continue for approximately 1.5 miles

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 3
Turn left along a track passing Rockhurst Farmhouse on your left (this track looks very rutted at the start but improves further on. The surface remains stony for the entire length). This section needs to be driven with care.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 4
On reaching Mouldridge Lane turn left (opposite a stone wall) and continue round a sharp bend until you reach The Mininglow High Peak Trail Car Park and Picnic site.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 5
Continue for a short distance and turn left) at the next road junction (signed Parwich).

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 6
On reaching the High Peak Trail sign (548) turn left down a tarmac road passing Roystone Cottages on your right.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 7
Continue along this pathway until you reach a cattle grid and go through the gate alongside it.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 8
From here continue to Roystone Grange (on your right).

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 9
Continue along the path keeping the steep grassy hill on the left, passing through a gate.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 10
Further down, beware Ballidon Quarry entrance is on your right and lorries may be turning to quarry.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 11
On reaching the road, turn left towards Ballidon.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 12
Continue for approximately one mile until you reach a road junction. Turn left (signed Long Cliffe and after a third of a mile you will reach the B5056.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 13
Turn left (signed Bakewell) and continue up the steep uphill road for approximately one mile after which you turn right onto Pasture Lane (signed at the end of lane Spencer Bos. 1903).

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 14
Continue for three quarters of a mile until you reach the T-junction, at which you turn left to Brassington.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 15
In Brassington pass the Olde Gate Inne pub on your right and at the church bear left down Jaspers Lane and after a short distance bear right onto Maddock Lane.

PLAP8 Peak District Drive Waypoint 16
On reaching the road junction at the end of the lane, turn left (signed Wirksworth) and continue up the hill for a short distance turning right back into the car park.