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(S/E) From The Robin Hood INN car park entrance, turn right down the main road (A619) past a stone farmhouse and a campsite entrance. 2 100 yards on, cross a stile in the wall on your right.
(1) Follow the path uphill, with views to Moorside Farm opening up to your right. Shortly after passing a prominent gritstone outcrop (the Cat Stone) on your right, you reach a stone-flanked gateway.
(2) Ignore the obvious path heading downhill straight ahead, instead turning right and following the wall as it curves uphill and to the left onto Gardom’s Edge. Pass through a gateway in a crossing wall and pass a line of three cairns (the “Three Men”), ignoring a wall stile on the right (this stile gives access to birch woodland, on the far edge of which is a fine replica of a piece of prehistoric rock art, protecting the original beneath – it’s difficult to locate but if you have a GPS you will find it at SK27297304).
Keep on along the wall, with the crags of Gardom’s Edge below and on your left, as the terrain becomes more wooded. (Beyond a short cross wall, a wooden gate on the right gives access to a standing stone which some archaeologists believe was used as a form of sundial.)
(3) The wall on your right becomes a fence and the woodland beyond it gradually peters out. As you near the valley containing the Sheffield Road, turn right through a gate above a gritstone outcrop. Follow the path beyond, approximately parallel to the road, for half a mile.
(4) Just before the path meets the road at a junction, turn right on an obvious path across the moor. Walk across the moor towards Birchen Edge; as you approach the edge, the terrain becomes more wooded and you pass a number of free-standing boulders.
(5) Look out for the pillar of Nelson’s Monument on the crag above, and just beyond it, pick your way up through the rocks to the top of the edge. At the top of the edge, having admired the view and examined the Monument and the adjacent Three Ships, turn right and walk along the top of the edge, with the rocky drop beneath you and to your right.
(6) The rocks eventually peter out and the slope to your right becomes less severe until, by an inspection cover, the path turns sharp right. Follow it steeply downhill for a short distance to rejoin the path at the boulder and hawthorn tree you passed earlier. Turn left and retrace your steps back to the road. Turn right to return to The Robin Hood INN. (S/E)
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