White Peak Walks: The Southern Dales: 30 walks in Derbyshire and Staffordshire

A guide to walking the southern dales of the White Peak area of the Peak District between Ashbourne, Matlock, Buxton and Leek. 30 walks are included in this guide, between 3 and 10 miles, illustrated with OS map extracts. From the grounds of Ilam Hall, down through the old railway trackbed of Manifold Trail and such sights as Thor's Cave along the route, the southern section of the White Peak offers variety and beauty and is waiting to be explored. The White Peak is the name given to the rocky southern area of the Peak District, for its pale underlying limestone. The result is a landscape of escarpments, heather moorlands, wooded valleys and the roll of hillsides and plateaux. Idyllic villages dot the walks with pubs standing by for refreshing walkers after a good walk.

Table of Contents:
PREFACE Introduction Bronze Age to barn conversions From protests to the Park Authority Walking in the White Peak The Southern Dales What to take Local services and transport Using this guide Walk 1 Dove Head and Washgate Walk 2 Morridge and Upper Elkstone Walk 3 Mixon and Butterton Walk 4 Revidge Walk 5 Manifold Track and Ecton Hill Walk 6 Hoo Brook, Swainsley, Wettonmill and Ladyside Wood Walk 7 Manifold Track and Waterfall Walk 8 Manifold Track, Beeston Tor and Waterfall Walk 9 Thor's Cave, Wettonmill, Pepper Hall and Wetton Hill Walk 10 Bincliff Walk 11 Manifold Track and Throwley Moor Walk 12 Ilam and Upper Musden Walk 13 Hollinsclough Moor, Washgate Bridge and Hollins Hill Walk 14 Parkhouse Hill, Chrome Hill and Dowel Dale Walk 15 High Wheeldon and Pilsbury Castle Walk 16 Sheen, Pilsbury Castle and Carder Low Walk 17 Beresford Dale, Wolfscote Dale and Biggin Dale Walk 18 High Peak Trail and Tissington Trail Walk 19 High Peak Trail, Aleck Low and Tissington Trail Walk 20 Tissington Trail, Biggin Dale and the Dove Walk 21 Narrowdale, Wolfscote Dale and Milldale Walk 22 Four Peakland Peaks Walk 23 Shining Tor, Hanson Grange and Hall Dale Walk 24 The Eastern Edge of Dove Dale Walk 25 Dove Dale, Ilam Rock, Air Cottage and Bunster Hill Walk 26 Thorpe Cloud and Thorpe Walk 27 Tissington Trail, Thorpe and Mapleton Walk 28 Tissington Trail and Parwich Walk 29 High Peak Trail and Roystone Grange Walk 30 Harborough Rocks, High Peak Trail, Roystone and Ballidon Appendix 1 Route summary table Appendix 2 Recommended reading Appendix 3 Useful contacts

About the Author :
Writer and broadcaster Mark Richards is the author of Cicerone's new 8-volume Lakeland Fellranger series and of the best-selling 'Great Mountain Days in the Lake District'. His first series of guides to the Peak District was published in the 1980s and has been in print ever since.