Start: The Bulls Head, 78 Old Road, Tintwistle, Glossop, Derbyshire SK13 1JY
(S/E) From the front door of The Bulls Head, turn left and walk past Stocks Brow and the war memorial. Turn right into the cobbled Arnfield Lane. At a junction (Crossgate Lane) turn left and walk downhill past Crossgate
Farm.
(1) Just before the entrance to the fly fishery and reservoir, follow a footpath on the right, just outside the reservoir wall. On meeting a track, turn left to cross an inlet and continue along the reservoir edge. After ¼ mile, swing right, away from the reservoir, to cross a bridge.
(2) Beyond a gate, turn left over a concrete bridge and continue into Swallow’s Wood (A). Before a ford, take a path on the right that leads past the bottom of the old reservoir and over a wooden bridge. Rejoin the track beyond the ford and turn right. At a junction of paths below a wall, turn right. Cross a small stream by a boarded-up stone building. Keep along parallel to the edge of the wood, descending some steps to cross another small stream. Descend to a footbridge and cross the main stream.
(3) Go left up some steps and turn left through a kissing gate and then a second into open fields. Follow the fence to a stile, where you turn right (away from the stream) and follow the yellow-topped waymarks across the field to another stile. Follow field boundaries beyond, before dropping to a farm track just above Arnfield (B).
(4) Turn right and then left to exit the farm, keeping right by the Pennine Bridleway sign.
(5) Follow the road beyond, crossing Arnfield Brook. Pass a farm on the left and then a covered reservoir on the right. At the junction with Crossgate Lane, carry straight on along the cobbled Arnfield Lane. On returning to Tintwistle, turn left to The Bulls Head. (S/E)
