Glossop to Tintwistle..More adventures along the Peak district boundary walk.

01/07/2018

To celebrate Britains first and arguably most beautiful national park, supporters of Friends of the Peak District have devised a 190 mile walking route around its entire boundary, stretching from the moorland tops of the South Pennines to the gentle limestone scenery of the Derbyshire dales, the route embraces the urban edges of Sheffield and Oldham, as well as Staffordshires rugged moorland and the undulating slopes of Cheshires hills...And im lucky enough to be following the path, albeit in short sections..its going to take us ages to complete...we started in Buxton in March and we have only just reached Glossop...Don't laugh but I like to take my time...Looking at the map, todays walk to Tintwistle should be a piece of cake, no big hills, although the views will still be first class...We parked up at a layby in the Charlestown area of the town..It was already so hot..i looked back towards the hills of last week, Whitely nab and the Cown edge hills.

The path we were on was sneaking along the Eastern edge of the town. Behind us lies Chunal moor and the worm stones while to our right we could see a steady stream of cars heading along the Snake pass road along the southern flanks of Bleaklow….Ahead of us lies Old Glossop. To our left we could see the moors beyond Tintwistle and Stalybridge, anyone that has been following the news this week will know of the devastation that has taken place up there, mile upon square mile of peat moorland burnt to a crisp, The firefighters and military have done a sterling job in controlling the fire,i doff my cap to these heroes...well done..so sad to think of the wildlife caught up in it..We squinted our eyes and where able to see several pockets still burning, smoke rising...To think that this may have been started on purpose!!..I for one would cut their bollocks off...Anyway, back to the walk...We followed the path down to Old Glossop,This historic part of the town centered on all saints parish church retains much of its charm and character...Three old pubs which sadly were not open yet were passed....a lovely place.

Getting ridiculously hot...Beginning to wish that we had left the dog at home..ahead of us was Swineshaw reservoir, he's gonna love it in there...and he did.

Crossing the Woodhead road and it was all downhill to Padley, that's what I am enjoying most about the PDBW it is taking us to places we have never been before. We crept pass a herd of cattle that were thankfully laying down...well that's that myth out of the window. Ahead of us lie Padley then Tintwistle and the pub.

Eventually made it down to Bottoms reservoir then on to the Pub...another Bulls head, the landlord was out in the garden, watering plants and tidying up after last nights revelry, Apparently it had been a good night with live music..Apparently everyone got drunk...Apparently no one wanted to go home resulting in a late night..Sounds like my sort of pub..We decided on a meal...Karen chose the vegetarian Bombay potato pie while I opted for the fish pie [chunky Haddock]..Bloody lovely...washed down with a couple of pints of Liquid sunshine....I liked this pub but we had to leave and walk back to Glossop...my tracker says we have walked 4.8 miles to get here.

So now we have to get back to Glossop...do we retrace our steps? making a 9.6 mile walk...sod that ,not in this heat a quick perusal of the map and I worked out a route mostly along country lanes saving us a couple of miles of toil...I should not really moan about the weather, but I do prefer it a tad cooler, so does Alf.

Im sure the horses wont mind him cooling off in their drinking water....Hot and sweating we arrived back to the car.