Sat July 25th
Flora and Fauna
Car share to Peep O' Day
Members of the Longdendale and Glossopdale Footpath Society met at Peep O' Day on the road summit between Hayfield and Chinley. Their walk took them onto the Pennine Bridle Way and threaded between the twin peaks of South Head and Mount Famine. The group paused at the head of Dimpus Clough giving the walkers opportunity to scale the summit of South Head.
Beet Lane took the ramblers to Beet Farm and time to read the words from Ecclesiastes and Proverbs carved unto the window sills. The descending lane brought the walkers to Hull End, then onto field paths toward White Knowle.
From White Knowl Farm paths by the Otter Brook lead down Alders Lane and on into Chinley. There was time to see the works being affected on the railway bridge before heading along Stubbins to take lunch in Chinley Park. After lunch and enjoying strong sunlight the hikers ascended to the flank of Chinley Churn at Throstle Bank. Tracks contoured across the side of the hill and views stretched from distant Lancastrian wind farms to Liverpool Cathedral.
On the east side of the hill the route descended Foxholes Clough, going down to Phoside there were impressive views onto Kinder Downfall. Across the main road on the valley floor then by Highgate and Stubbs Farm to the dragon?s back ridge walk. The final path kept to the rim of the Sett valley before rejoining the Pennine Bridle Way which took the ramblers to the terminus of their treck.
David Frith
