Walk · Derbyshire

Bleaklow and Higher Shelf Stones from Old Glossop

Glossop

7.6MILES

5hON FOOT

450mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

The route A-road B-road Lane Track Path Water Woodland

Off-road 96% 4% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 70%Lane & track 26%Road with traffic 4%

Our drawing of the route, over road and path data from OpenStreetMap. It shows where the walk goes and what it goes through. It is not a survey and not a navigation aid — carry OS Explorer on the hill. Off-lead information here is what walkers reported or what signage allows — never our advice. Whether and when a dog is off the lead is the owner’s decision and legal responsibility; keep dogs under control near livestock and follow signs on the day.

Starts at

Free roadside parking at the end of Shepley Street, Old Glossop

Parking

Free roadside for about a dozen cars at the end of Shepley Street, Old Glossop; it fills early on fine weekends and there is no alternative within a mile

Directions to the start →

Seven and a half miles, 450 metres of ascent and a full five hours, because the top half is trackless peat where navigation matters more than fitness and mist is common. Start from the free roadside parking at the end of Shepley Street in Old Glossop, where the Doctor's Gate track begins; there is space for a dozen cars and nothing else nearby. This is open access moor with a fixed two-metre lead required from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds and at all times near sheep, the peat groughs are chest-deep and exhausting for a small dog, and although Shelf Brook and Crooked Clough give water the plateau pools are peat soup.

THE SMALL PRINTOpen access moorland: a fixed lead of no more than two metres from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds and at all times near sheep; grouse moor closures of up to 28 days a year are possible.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · DERBYSHIRE

GRID · 53.4478, -1.9330

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.PEAKDISTRICT.GOV.UK/VISITING/PLANNING-YOUR-VISIT/CROW

Bleaklow and Higher Shelf Stones from Old Glossop

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