Hope · 2 checked
Boots on. These are the Hope walks worth the drive, with lead rules and livestock warnings marked.
Six and a half miles and three and a half hours up the long eastern shoulder of Lose Hill, along the ridge to Back Tor and back by Hollins Cross and Townhead. Park on Marsh Lane in Hope or, better on a busy day, come in on the train and start from the station a few hundred metres away. Sheep graze every field on the way up and the ridge is National Trust land where short leads are asked for all year, the pull to Back Tor has rock steps and a chain-assisted section a nervous dog will hate, and the last water is the trough at Townhead.
Five and a half miles and about three and a quarter hours, a 420-metre climb to a rocky summit with the best all-round view in the Hope Valley for the effort involved. Start from the pay-and-display car park on Marsh Lane in Hope, small but usually with space, and the station is 500 metres away for anyone coming by train. The lower fields are grazed and the ridge is open access, so a two-metre fixed lead is required near stock and from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds; there is no water above the last field gate and the summit tor is a short scramble that some dogs will refuse.
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