Walk s116 The Roaches, Hen Cloud, Meerbrook and Lud's Church from Gradbach

Vital Statistics:

Length:	11½mls (18.5km)
Ascent:	2,274ft (693m)
Time:	6½hrs
Grade:

Route outline for walk s116:

Gradbach  -  The Dane Valley Way  -  Gradbach Youth Hostel  -  Black Brook  -  Forest Wood  -  Roach End  -  The Roaches  -  Doxey Pool  -  Rockhall  -  Hen Cloud  -  Well Farm  -  Dains Mill  -  Upper Hulme  -  Butty Fold Farm  -  Staffordshire Moorlands Walk  -  Tittesworth Reservoir  -  Meerbrook  -  Stockmeadows Farm  -  Meadows Farm  -  Buxton Brow  -  Clough Head  -  Back Forest  -  Lud's Church  -  Rock Chasm  -  Black Brook  -  Gradbach Youth Hostel  -  The Dane Valley Way  -  Gradbach

Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

0 English Mountains

0 Wainwrights

0 English Nuttalls

1 English Dewey

0 Wainwright Outlying Fells

0 Marilyns

0 Bridgets

Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is The Roaches at 505m (1657ft). The Roaches is also known as an English Dewey (173rd highest in England, 399th in England & Wales) The summit of The Roaches is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.

National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:

Part of this walk follows a section of The Dane Valley Way, a 66km (41 miles) linear footpath connecting Buxton in Derbyshire, with Middlewich in Cheshire, England. The Dane Valley Way is waymarked by the letters DVW. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Dane Valley Way.

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Some Photos and Pictures from Walk s116 The Roaches, Hen Cloud, Meerbrook and Lud's Church from Gradbach

In no particular order . . .

Snow on The Roaches

Photo: Richard Nicholls (68)

Having my picnic on a hazy day up The Roaches

Photo: Jo McGawley (1)

Meerbrook church

Photo: Mike Walker (24)

North West from The Roaches

Photo: David Hughes (3)

Hen Cloud from the lane north of Meerbrook

Photo: Mike Walker (26)

Rock Formation near Lud's Church, The Roaches

Photo: Steve Lowe (4)

Snow on The Roaches

Photo: Richard Nicholls (74)

Lud's Church, The Roaches

Photo: Geoff Pickering (1)

On The Roaches

Photo: Geoff Pickering (2)

In Lud's Church, The Roaches

Photo: David Hughes (1)

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