Walk · Derbyshire

Stanage Edge from North Lees

Hathersage

6MILES

3h 20mON FOOT

340mCLIMB

CircularSHAPE

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

Off-road 92% 8% shares tarmac with cars

Field & moor path 76%Lane & track 16%Road with traffic 8%

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

Hollin Bank car park, North Lees, on the Hathersage to Ringinglow road

Parking

Pay-and-display at Hollin Bank, around 60 spaces and toilets; full by 9.30am on climbing weekends, when the roadside lay-bys higher up fill too

Directions to the start →

Six miles and about three and a half hours along the top of the longest gritstone edge in the Peak, with a steady 340-metre climb and a wide flagged path underfoot. Start from the Hollin Bank car park below the edge on the North Lees estate, run by the national park and pay-and-display; it takes about 60 cars and is full by half nine on climbing weekends, with lay-bys on the Ringinglow road as a fallback. The whole estate is national park land where dogs are welcome, but sheep graze the plantations and moor edge and a two-metre fixed lead is required near them and from 1 March to 31 July for the ground-nesting birds; the edge itself is an unfenced drop of up to 20 metres, so a loose dog is a bad idea in mist.

THE SMALL PRINTA fixed lead of no more than two metres near the grazing sheep and from 1 March to 31 July to protect ground-nesting birds; the edge is an unfenced 20-metre drop for over a mile.

House rules, decoded

Livestock — leads on

REGION · DERBYSHIRE

GRID · 53.3411, -1.6392

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

Stanage Edge from North Lees

House rules, decoded

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