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Mam Nick circular. Caverns and Castle Walk.
Group: Stockport
Date: Sunday 29 March 2009
Start gridref: SK123832
Start time: 11am
Grade: Leisurely
Distance: 8 miles
Longer description: Start from Mam Nick NT CP. No dogs. Graded C+ in our printed programme, meaning it is hillier than usual for this grade of walk.
From the National Trust car park at Mam Nick, (free to members), the walk takes us in the opposite direction to the majority of users who head up the steep hill to Mam Tor. We will cross the road to take a series of paths that lead us past the entrance to: The Blue John, Treak Cliff and Speedwell caverns. We stay high on the hillside above Peak Cavern to arrive at Peveril Castle. The route now turns South West, following the edge above Cove Dale, to join the Limestone Way and then turn North to cross Conies Dale, through a very ancient landscape that bears the scars of many ages of human activity and some the result of natural forces with Eldon Hole visible on the hillside. We return to the car park via Oxlow House and Windy Knoll.
Contact name: Neil Anderton
Contact phone: 0161 794 7876
sunrise 05:45
sunset 18:24
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