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From Ilam to Milldale and Thorpe Pasture

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Overview

The walk goes from Ilam Hall in the Manifold Valley via Bunster Hill and Upper Hall Dale to beautiful  Milldale in the Dove Valley before heading up above the Dove to Baley Hill and Thorpe Pasture returning via Coldwell Bridge.

Wednesday, 2 October 2024
Start time:
10:00 am
Estimated finish time:
4:00 pm
Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
19.3km / 12.0mi
Ascent:
853.4m / 2800ft
Type:
circular
Website:
https://www.derbyshiredalesramblers.org.uk

Features

  • Refreshments available (Pub/cafe)
  • Toilets available
  • Car parking available

Starting point

Grid reference:
SK 13076 50736
Nearest postcode:
DE6 2AZ
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Start time:
10:00 am

Park in Ilam Hall CP (NT free to members otherwise P&D £7 per day, or roadside parking in Ilam. The walk starts from Ilam Hall Car Park.

Upcoming walks with Derbyshire Dales Group

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Rumbling Street, Linacre & Barlow

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Difficulty:
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Distance:
10.0 miles
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Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Foolow Duck Pond

Wardlow- The Six-Lows Walk

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Riber Castle

Holloway (booking required)

Start:

Difficulty:
Strenuous
Distance:
14.0 miles
Abney Clough

Sir William Hill

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.0 miles
Ilam Hall from Ilam Park

Ilam

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.5 miles
stream

Litton, Tideswell, Millers Dale, Monsal Trail and Cressbrook Mill - Booking required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
7.7 miles
A recent walk

Great Longstone, Longstone Moor & Calver Peak

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
12.0 miles
Waterfall

An extra leisurely walk and tour of the mills, Lumsdale

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
2.0 miles
Dethick St John the Baptist Church

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Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Green valley with sheep

Shillito Wood

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
11.0 miles
Crookstone Moor and sheep

Fairholmes (Strenuous)

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
12.0 miles
Cromford, Willersley Castle

Cromford and Bolehill

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
9.5 miles
trees

Eddlestow Lot, Kelstedge and Uppertown.

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
7.0 miles
A recent walk

Youlgreave, Hopping Farm, Alport & Meadow Place Grange

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.0 miles
Mill in woods

Walk from Tideswell (with shorter extra leisurely option from Litton)

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
5.5 miles
Darley Dale from Snitterton

South Darley village walk

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
5.5 miles
Walking up to Robin Hood's Stride

Youlgrave

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
13.0 miles
A view over fields to the Manifold Valley

Quiet walk above Chatsworth and Haddon Estates

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.0 miles
canal

Cromford Meadows, Cromford Canal and Bow Wood - Booking required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Bridge

Hassop Station Extra Leisurely Walk

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Pleasely Pit 1

PLEASLEY PIT and PLEASLEY VALE (Booking required)

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
7.0 miles
A group of Ramblers at Edgetop

From New Mills to Hayfield and Cracken Edge

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
11.0 miles
Thorpe Cloud from Ilam Park

Thorpe, Ilam, Tissington and Bradbourne - Please BOOK

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
14.0 miles
Ramblers getting ready to move off

The Cheshire Matterhorn

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.0 miles
Canal

Cromford and Bonsall - Booking required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
7.0 miles
Trees and river

Darley Bridge - Extra Leisurely Walk

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Bamford Edge

Bamford- Bradwell and Shatton Moor

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.5 miles
View of hills from Hollinsclough

Hollinsclough for Brand Top and Flash

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
11.0 miles
Fancy Dam at Ladygrove

Darley Dale and Sydnope

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.0 miles
Market Hall

Elton, Gratton Dale and Winster

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.0 miles
Reservoir

Kirk Ireton Extra Leisurely walk

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
River Bradford 1

Middleton by Youlgreave

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Ramblers walking on Derwent Edge through heather

Cutthroat Bridge for Win Hill and Derwent Moors

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
13.0 miles
Lathkill Dale

Limestone Country and Lathkill Dale

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
9.0 miles
River Soar

Normanton on Soar circular using the Chain Ferry - Booking required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
River

Alstonefield and Dovedale Extra Leisurely Walk

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Thor's Cave

Wetton- Thor's Cave spectacular

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
The limestone valley of Lathkill Dale

Monyash for Lathkill Dale and Arbor Low

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.9 miles
Moorland walk with Ramblers

Dennis Knoll to Redmires

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
9.0 miles
Fields

Elton for Robin Hood's Stride, Birchover and Winster - Booking required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
7.0 miles
Canal

Lea Gardens - Extra Leisurely Walk

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
River Wye limestone dale

Tideswell and the Limestone Way

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.5 miles
Dovedale and Baley Hill

From Ilam to Milldale and Thorpe Pasture

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
12.0 miles
Derbyshire countryside

Firestone to Belper

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.0 miles
Woods

The Eastern Edges of Big Moor - Booking Required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Hills

Extra leisurely walk from Calver Sough

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Derwent

Calver

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
View from Kinder

Mam Nick, Edale and Kinder Scout

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.0 miles
Misty walk on moorland

Axe Edge

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.5 miles
river

Darley Bridge, Snitterton and Oaker

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Houses

Extra leisurely walk from Cromford

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Ashover Amber Valley

Ashover Adventure

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Burbage Rocks

Pym Chair for Windgather Rocks and the Gritstone Trail

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
12.0 miles
Manifold Valley walk

Manifold Valley Area

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
9.3 miles
Chrome and Parkhouse Hills

Earl Sterndale, Dowel Dale, Hollinsclough, and Glutton Bridge - Booking required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
7.3 miles
Red berries

Extra leisurely walk from Little Eaton

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Crich Stand 1

Holloway via Crich to the Cromford Canal

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Stepping stones in Chee Dale

A walk through the Dales - Deep Dale, Millers Dale, Chee Dale

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
11.0 miles
Monsal Head Viaduct

Monsal Dale

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.5 miles
Walkers

Grindon for Wetton Mill and Butterton - Booking required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.0 miles
leaves

Extra leisurely walk from Hathersage

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Ilam Hall

Ilam Hall

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.2 miles
A view of fields around Chelmorton

Earl Sterndale, Chelmorton and Brierlow

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
10.0 miles
High Peak Junction, Cromford Canal

Lea, Riber and High Tor

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.0 miles
bridge

Bakewell for Edensor - Booking required

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
7.0 miles
leaves

Extra leisurely walk from Great Longstone

Start:

Difficulty:
Leisurely
Distance:
4.0 miles
Stanton Moor

Rowsley to Stanton Moor Adventure

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
6.0 miles
Longshaw Estate view

Longshaw and Moors

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
8.5 miles
church

Lower Lumsdale for Hearthstone, Lea and Dethick

Start:

Difficulty:
Moderate
Distance:
7.0 miles

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  • a library jam-packed with thousands of tried-and-tested routes
  • a welcome pack teeming with top tips plus our Walk magazine
  • exclusive discounts from our partners
  • knowing your support is opening up more places to walk and helping more people discover the joy of walking
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