Route outline for walk d160:
Monsal Head - Upperdale - The River Wye - Cressbrook Mill - The River Wye - Water-cum-Jolly Dale - Litton Mill - The Monsal Trail - Water-cum-Jolly Dale - Monsal Head Viaduct - Monsal Head
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of The Monsal Trail, a 16km (10 miles) linear footpath connecting Blackwell Visitor Car Park, Wye Dale in Derbyshire, England with Coombs Road, Bakewell in Derbyshire, England. Originally part of a line connecting St Pancras with Manchester it was closed to rail traffic in 1968. The Monsal Trail is waymarked by name posts. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Monsal Trail.
You can find more walks near this one on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps: (click/TAP to select)
1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (the ones with orange/yellow covers):
1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (the ones with pink/magenta covers):
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