Walk · Derbyshire

Higger Tor and Carl Wark from Hathersage

Hathersage

5.8MILES

3h 15mON FOOT

350mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 88% 12% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 70%Lane & track 18%Road with traffic 12%

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

Oddfellows Road pay-and-display car park, Hathersage

Parking

Cheap pay-and-display on Oddfellows Road, around 70 spaces and rarely full; free lay-bys at Upper Burbage Bridge fill by 10am

Directions to the start →

Just under six miles and about three and a quarter hours, climbing 350 metres out of the Derwent valley to the boulder crown of Higger Tor and the Iron Age wall of Carl Wark. Park in the Oddfellows Road pay-and-display in Hathersage, which is cheap and rarely full, and the Fox House bus can shorten the return; the Burbage bridge lay-bys are the alternative if you want a shorter version. This is Eastern Moors land where dogs must be on a lead of no more than two metres on open access ground from 1 March to 31 July and at all times around the cattle that graze Burbage, the peat groughs on the tor are deep enough to swallow a small dog, and Burbage Brook is the reliable water.

THE SMALL PRINTEastern Moors rules: a lead of no more than two metres on open access land from 1 March to 31 July for nesting birds and lambing, and a lead at all times around the grazing cattle and sheep.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · DERBYSHIRE

GRID · 53.3277, -1.6516

SOURCE · HTTPS://WWW.VISIT-EASTERN-MOORS.ORG.UK/VISIT/TAKE-THE-LEAD/

Higger Tor and Carl Wark from Hathersage

House rules, decoded

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