I’d had my eye on this one for a while. Looking for a decent local walk (by which I mean something that starts and finishes at my front door in Higher Buxton), the obvious contender for the “long” version — something that would while away a complete morning or afternoon — was a bimble southwards over Grin Low (paying a quick visit to Solomon’s Temple) and out to Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill.
I’ve just enjoyed a very relaxing weekend up in Derbyshire, staying with friends on the south edge of the Peak District. It never fails to amaze me just how much of the Peak I’ve yet to explore. Having been based in Nottingham for seven years (first at Uni, and then whilst working at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby), the Peak was on my doorstep (albeit a mighty 25-mile step) for long enough to have made countless day and weekend trips to this, Britain’s first national park. And yet there are still huge swathes that I’m pretty much a stranger to.