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Chatsworth circular.
Group: Stockport
Date: Tuesday 17 March 2009
Start gridref: SK258685
Start time: 10am
Grade: Moderate
Distance: 11 miles
Longer description: Start from Chatsworth Garden Centre, Calton Lees car park.
We can look forward to a pleasant Spring walk in this warmer weather we are now having, with a walk through Chatsworth park and up onto the surrounding moors. From Chatsworth Garden Centre car park we make our way across the meadow to Beeley, from where we climb up following Beeley Brook through mature woodlands known as Beeley plantation and Hell Bank plantation. From here we make our way over the moor to Harland Edge, and Hob Hursts House, which is a prehistoric burial mound known as a round barrow. From here we will follow a good but possibly wet track across Gibbet to pick up a watercourse known quite grandly as Emperor Stream. I suspect that this is part of the waterworks that feed the water features in Chatsworth Park. From here we drop down towards the Robin Hood, and make our way around the edge overlooking the park to the Hunting Tower. From here, we follow the good tracks around the ornamental lakes, before dropping down to Beeley Lodge and back to the car park. (picture to follow).
Optional refreshment after at the Devonshire Arms, Beeley.
Contact name: Mike Pell
Contact phone: 07914 631 623
* Dogs are permitted on this walk
sunrise 06:11
sunset 18:05
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