Edale and the terrible footpath in need of a bit of TLC, Derbyshire
Worn away initially by the many walkers, paths like this then become water courses deepening them ever more. This is about I metre deep in places but only a few feet wide, full of rounded stones and slippery boulders and hemmed in by gorse. Not a pleasant route. It's always a shame when paths like this have to be made more serviceable by the National Park authorities but left alone they become ever wider scars across the landscape as walkers seek to find an easier route.
Adding these lines a few days later as I've just discovered that this was the footpath that the female mill workers took everyday from Castleton in the Hope valley, over the ridge and down into Edale to a mill built in the 18th century. What a walk there and back in all weathers! It was also the 'Coffin route', before the church was built in Edale in the 19th century coffins would go the other way, up here, down over the ridge to the graveyard at the village of Castleton.
Edale and the terrible footpath in need of a bit of TLC, Derbyshire
Worn away initially by the many walkers, paths like this then become water courses deepening them ever more. This is about I metre deep in places but only a few feet wide, full of rounded stones and slippery boulders and hemmed in by gorse. Not a pleasant route. It's always a shame when paths like this have to be made more serviceable by the National Park authorities but left alone they become ever wider scars across the landscape as walkers seek to find an easier route.
Adding these lines a few days later as I've just discovered that this was the footpath that the female mill workers took everyday from Castleton in the Hope valley, over the ridge and down into Edale to a mill built in the 18th century. What a walk there and back in all weathers! It was also the 'Coffin route', before the church was built in Edale in the 19th century coffins would go the other way, up here, down over the ridge to the graveyard at the village of Castleton.