{"id":2565,"date":"2022-12-17T01:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T00:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/?p=2565"},"modified":"2022-12-12T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T09:09:43","slug":"redmires-reservoirs-and-stanage-edge-s-yorks-derbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/?p=2565","title":{"rendered":"Redmires Reservoirs and Stanage Edge, S. Yorks\/Derbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">function popwalk(walk) {var url = \"\/Walks\/amap.php?f=\"+walk; varwalkwindow=window.open(url,\"walkwin\",\"height=740,width=1100,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes\"); if (window.focus) {walkwindow.focus()}}<\/script><br \/> First published in: The Times <a href=\"javascript:popwalk('StanageEdge.jpg');\" rel=\"nozoom\" title=\"Click here to view a map for this walk in a new window\">Click here to view a map for this walk in a new window<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455422721_a552e51b51_z.jpg\" title= \"Looking south from Stanage Edge to the White Peak 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455422721_a552e51b51_s.jpg\" alt=\"Looking south from Stanage Edge to the White Peak 1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455870530_d050198ac4_z.jpg\" title= \"green lane from Fulwood Road\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455870530_d050198ac4_s.jpg\" alt=\"green lane from Fulwood Road\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455870445_6ec4b60f84_z.jpg\" title= \"Redmires Reservoirs 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455870445_6ec4b60f84_s.jpg\" alt=\"Redmires Reservoirs 1\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52454899217_8f594fc0ee_z.jpg\" title= \"Redmires Reservoirs 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52454899217_8f594fc0ee_s.jpg\" alt=\"Redmires Reservoirs 2\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455948158_f122437243_z.jpg\" title= \"looking east down the Long Causey\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455948158_f122437243_s.jpg\" alt=\"looking east down the Long Causey\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455688639_6bbf0cf38a_z.jpg\" title= \"approaching Stanage Edge\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455688639_6bbf0cf38a_s.jpg\" alt=\"approaching Stanage Edge\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52454899212_145f92a4af_z.jpg\" title= \"Looking south from Stanage Edge to the White Peak 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52454899212_145f92a4af_s.jpg\" alt=\"Looking south from Stanage Edge to the White Peak 2\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455948238_7d29657473_z.jpg\" title= \"layered gritstone outcrop overlooking Redmires Reservoirs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455948238_7d29657473_s.jpg\" alt=\"layered gritstone outcrop overlooking Redmires Reservoirs\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455688739_0e920e4715_z.jpg\" title= \"Sheffield Water Board boundary stone at Redmires Reservoirs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455688739_0e920e4715_s.jpg\" alt=\"Sheffield Water Board boundary stone at Redmires Reservoirs\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455422711_26cd0357b6_z.jpg\" title= \"gritstone boulder with cross-bedding at east end of Stanage Edge\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455422711_26cd0357b6_s.jpg\" alt=\"gritstone boulder with cross-bedding at east end of Stanage Edge\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455947863_cda1403d50_z.jpg\" title= \"cranberries beside the Long Causey\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455947863_cda1403d50_s.jpg\" alt=\"cranberries beside the Long Causey\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455688409_9615c02c8a_z.jpg\" title= \"Looking south from Stanage Edge to the White Peak 3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm66.static.flickr.com\/65535\/52455688409_9615c02c8a_s.jpg\" alt=\"Looking south from Stanage Edge to the White Peak 3\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"javascript:pwindow=window.open('\/Walks\/prn.php?f=2565','pwin','height=700,width=1000,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');\" title=\"Click for printable version\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Walks\/print.gif\" align=\"right\"><\/a><br \/>\nAfter a day of torrential rain, a cold blowy morning had broken over the Dark Peak. Grey clouds rolled east like cannon smoke, and there was a muted light over the moors of the South Yorkshire\/Derbyshire border. Neatly built walls of chapel-black gritstone lined the green lane we followed uphill between sheep pastures. <\/p>\n<p>A gate led onto the open moor at Rud Hill, the winding path a glinting trickle of water among bracken and rocks as the moors disgorged yesterday\u2019s rain. There was something bracing and exhilarating about tramping this watery path with the blustery wind in our faces and the three slit-grey eyes of the Redmires Reservoirs coldly winking below.<\/p>\n<p>Down beside the reservoirs it was astonishing to note how far their water levels had fallen during the past summer of drought. These water stores were built up here in the 1830s and 40s after an outbreak of cholera in nearby Sheffield had claimed more than 400 lives. Drinking-water unpolluted by sewage was desperately needed in a city that had doubled in size since 1800 but still relied on medieval drainage.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped to watch a flock of fifty mistle thrushes descend to strip a rowan of its orange berries, then turned along the stony upland track of the Long Causey. Roman soldiers laid it out, packmen and their horses crossed the moors along its cobbled roadway. Today it was runners and walkers who passed the trackside verges where the bright scarlet fruit of cranberry added a dash of colour to the sombre grey of the stone and the foxy brown of the moors.<\/p>\n<p>Stanage Pole stood tall among its rocks, a waymark for travellers since medieval times. Here we crossed from South Yorkshire into Derbyshire. The Long Causey dipped to Stanage Edge and a tremendous southward view across an undulating green valley to where the landscape rose towards the limestone uplands of the White Peak.<\/p>\n<p>The homeward way led along Stanage Edge, a gritstone cliff filled with landscape dramas in its own right. The finely layered rocks had been weathered into faces, towers, animal shapes, stacks of pancakes. Helmeted climbers\u2019 heads popped up over the edge, children jumped yelling off the rocks, and the wind blew everyone inside out. What a wonderful natural playground, halfway between the earth and the clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\fHow hard is it? 7\u00bd miles; easy gradients, but watch your step; stumbly rocks, boggy patches, rough moorland paths.<\/p>\n<p>Start: Fulwood Lane car park, near Norfolk Arms Hotel, SN10 4QN (OS ref SK 285840)<\/p>\n<p>Getting there: Bus 258 (Sheffield)<br \/>\nRoad &#8211; Fulwood Lane is beside Norfolk Arms, Ringinglow Road, S11 7TS<\/p>\n<p>Walk (OS Explorer OL1): Right along Fulwood Lane. In \u2154 mile at right bend, ahead (277845, ladder stile) on green lane (permissive path). In 400m, through gate onto moor (273845); boggy but clearly trodden path with occasional waymark posts. In 1 mile descend from White Stones (261845 approx) to stile (258849). Left across bridge; left up stony Long Causey (257851). In \u00be mile pass Stanage Pole (247844); in 500m, left along Stanage Edge (241843 \u2013 watch your step!) for 1\u00bc miles to trig pillar (251830). Bear a little left; in 200m drop down through rocks on right (253830); left on path to Upper Burbage Bridge (259830). Left along road (path on left verge). In 1\u00bc miles opposite forestry plantation on right, left (279834, gate) on moor path. In 400m, just past white \u2018gate\u2019, fork right (278838, waymark post) to wall stile (280840). Diagonally across field; stile; across field, keeping right of wall, to Fulwood Lane (285842). Right to car park.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch\/Accommodation: Norfolk Arms, Ringinglow Road (0114-230-2197, <a href=\"http:\/\/norfolkarms.com\">norfolkarms.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Info: <a href=\"http:\/\/peakdistrict.gov.uk\">peakdistrict.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a day of torrential rain, a cold blowy morning had broken over the Dark Peak. Grey clouds rolled east like cannon smoke, and there was a muted light over the moors of the South Yorkshire\/Derbyshire border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walks","category-3-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophersomerville.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}