At the highest point of the walk there's a stone style to traverse. I just love the way the blocks of stone have been carved and shaped so that everything fits. It was down hill all the way after that, but the weather was now closing in and I was pleased we'd decided to have a walk first to work up an appetite. Anything on the menu would have sounded good, but the venison and cranberry pie tasted even better than it sounded and boy was I hungry!!
After lunch we just had a short walk around the remaining walled garden, but soon decided that we were ready to get back in the car and drive a bit further. We headed West towards Holmfirth (town of Last Of The Summer Wine) and were pleasantly surprised when for 60p we could have parked up until the next morning. Even better - Graham found a clothing recycling bin which had some room left and quickly filled it with the coats in the back of the car we had liberated from the hall cupboard over Christmas. (There wasn't any room in Derby as everyone had had the same idea.) After a brief walk round, the heavens decided to empty any rain it had left, not vertically, but in sheets along the line of the valley, it was time to return home. By 5 o'clock we were back in Derby and waiting outside to collect Lucy from work.