Walk · Derbyshire

Castleton to Hope by Hollins Cross

Castleton

6MILES

3h 15mON FOOT

300mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 86% 14% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 62%Lane & track 24%Road with traffic 14%

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

Castleton visitor centre car park, Buxton Road

Parking

Pay-and-display in Castleton, full by 10am at weekends; Hope has a smaller pay car park on Marsh Lane if you walk it the other way

Directions to the start →

Six miles and three and a quarter hours, climbing the old coffin road to Hollins Cross on the Great Ridge then dropping to Hope and returning along the Peakshole Water. The Castleton visitor centre car park is the start and the walk can be split by the Hope Valley train, which takes dogs free between Hope and Hathersage. Sheep graze the ridge and the valley fields, so a two-metre fixed lead is needed near stock and from 1 March to 31 July on the access land, but the Peakshole Water beside the last mile is shallow, clean and made for a hot dog.

THE SMALL PRINTA fixed lead of no more than two metres near the sheep on the ridge and in the valley fields, and on open access land from 1 March to 31 July for ground-nesting birds.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · DERBYSHIRE

GRID · 53.3457, -1.7773

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.NATIONALTRUST.ORG.UK/VISIT/PEAK-DISTRICT-DERBYSHIRE/KINDER-EDALE-AND-THE-HIGH-PEAK/VISITING-THE-PEAK-DISTRICT-WITH-YOUR-DOG

Castleton to Hope by Hollins Cross

House rules, decoded

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