Right! Had the intro to this blog & the pictures in place since mid-September but I've failed abysmally to add to them
Going to try & publish a brief note & a picture or two on each excursion in an attempt to Catch-Up!
New Year Resolution will be to resume normal service & keep up-to-date!
Hadn't been to Hayfield since walking the Peak District Inn Way in April 2008. Then I'd climbed to Black Ashop Moor & taken the Snake Path below Kinder.... in heavy snow! Today was one of the hottest days of the Summer & the stretches beneath trees were an absolute joy!
Chapel-en-le-Frith is only a couple of miles east of Eccles Pike (Postscript 14) & west of Eldon Hill (Postscript 17) so we were becoming regulars in the pubs along this stretch!
Another well-dressing day but with both a morning & afternoon walk tagged-on to keep those knees clicking....
Enjoying the sunshine with a good friend in Hayfield village!
Probably our favourite Hayfield well-dressing - Watery Hey Well
Benefitted from being in the shade - several dressings were already beginning to crack
Hayfield's 7 dressings were quite well scattered & a fair amount of walking was involved to see them all from Little Hayfield in the north to Hill Houses in the east
Delighted to visit Bowden Bridge Quarry - an historic site!
Two views north-east from Hill Houses towards Crowden & Kinder
Gold post box in Chapel-en-le-Frith
Painted to celebrate Anthony Kappes Cycling Gold at the Paralympics
This stretch north-east of Chapel Milton had been on my original LeJog route until, given the impending sleet, I took a more direct path to Rushup Edge!
But these magnificent viaducts were part of LeJog!
One dates from 1867, the other from 1890: a Grade II Listed Building, the viaducts were a key part of the Midland Railway System but now carry huge quantities of stone from the quarries around Buxton
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