Walk · Derbyshire

Kinder Scout from Edale by Jacob's Ladder

Edale

8.6MILES

5h 30mON FOOT

600mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 94% 6% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 82%Lane & track 12%Road with traffic 6%

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

Edale pay-and-display car park by the station, then Grindsbrook Booth

Parking

Pay-and-display by Edale station, around 100 spaces, full by 9am at weekends; verge parking in the lane is heavily restricted

Directions to the start →

Eight and a half miles, 600 metres of climbing and a solid five to six hours on the plateau, with peat, boulders and paved packhorse steps rather than anything resembling a path on top. Start from the pay-and-display car park by Edale station, which is the only proper parking in the valley and full by nine on fine weekends; the train from Sheffield or Manchester takes dogs free and saves the problem entirely. National Trust land throughout, where short leads are asked for all year because of grazing sheep and especially from March to July for ground-nesting birds, and while the cloughs give water low down the plateau itself is bog with nothing safe to drink in a dry spell.

THE SMALL PRINTThe National Trust asks for dogs on short leads all year on Kinder and the High Peak because of grazing sheep, and it matters most from March to July when ground-nesting birds are on the moor.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · DERBYSHIRE

GRID · 53.3654, -1.8161

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

Kinder Scout from Edale by Jacob's Ladder

House rules, decoded

Kinder Scout from Edale

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