Last week, I had a very painful right foot but by yesterday it was pretty much better so with clement weather promised, it was time to drive over the border into Derbyshire once again for another gorgeous country walk - Walk 17 from my "White Peak" Pathfinder Guide. I parked in the high Pennine town of Tideswell with its noble fourteenth century parish church and its multitude of limestone cottages - once upon a time the homes of quarrymen and lead miners.
The walk was sub-titled "A Five Dales Walk" and it was six and a quarter miles long. The dales in order were Tansley Dale, Cressbrook Dale, the beautifully named and indeed beautiful Water-cum-Jollydale, Millers Dale and finally Tideswell Dale. Such variety, such views, such history soaked into in the very landscape. Unfortunately, the skies were not always as blue and sunny as the BBC weather forecast had predicted. But I didn't mind. It was just good to be out there again, striding along with camera in hand singing an old Fifth Dimension number:-
Rhyl, I love you so, I always will
I look at you and see the passion eyes of May
Oh, but am I ever gonna see my wedding day
I was on your side Rhyl when you were losin'
I never scheme or lie Rhyl, there's been no foolin'...
Oh come on Rhyl
Oh come on Rhyl
Marry me Rhyl...
And so to some pictures from Walk 17:-
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| Tideswell |
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| Early lambs at Litton |
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| Ravensdale cottages |
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| Giant water vole in Tideswell Dale |
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| View towards Wardlow Mires |
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