Route outline for walk s233:
Longnor - River Manifold - The Manifold Trail - Over Boothlow Farm - Lower Boothlow Farm - Hill End Farm - Sheen Hill - Slate House Farm - Sheen - Brund - River Manifold - Brund Mill - New Road Farm - Field House Farm - Reaps Moor - Black Brook - Smedley Sytch - Boosley Grange - Fawfield Head - Bank House - Shining Ford - The Manifold Trail - Hardings Booth - Fawside Farm - Gauledge Farm,Longnor.
Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:
For much of the year the River Manifold appears dry. In fact it runs underground from Wettonmill to Ilam taking 22 hours to cover the 4 miles.
Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:
0 English Mountains |
0 Wainwrights |
0 English Nuttalls |
0 English Deweys |
0 Wainwright Outlying Fells |
0 Marilyns |
1 Bridget |
Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:
The highest point of this walk is Sheen Hill at 380m (1247ft). Sheen Hill is known as an English Bridget. The summit of Sheen Hill is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point. Sheen Hill is on private farmland. However, the kind owners seem not to mind visitors to the summit Trig Point providing they stay away from the farmhouse.
National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:
Part of this walk follows a section of The Manifold Trail, a 37km (23 miles) linear footpath connecting Manifold Head, near Flash in Staffordshire, with Dovedale Car Park, near Ilam in Derbyshire, England. The Manifold Trail is waymarked by named posts. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Manifold Trail.
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