Hardwick Park

A level lakeside and woodland stroll with an optional climb through open parkland to Hardwick Hall.

Details

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 1.93 mi
  • ◔
    Average duration: 0h 55 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Easy

  • ⚐
    Back to start: Yes
  • ↗
    Ascent: + 43 ft
  • ↘
    Descent: - 43 ft

  • ▲
    Highest point: 417 ft
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 351 ft

Description of the walk

(S/E) From The Hardwick Inn car park entrance, turn right towards the entrance to Hardwick Park. Go through the gate to the left of the cattle grid and turn left along the woodland edge.

(1) After about 300 yards, turn left through a kissing gate into the wood (signposted “The sculpture walk”). Skirt to the right of the duck decoy and cross the stream. On exiting the woodland, bear right and follow the path alongside the Great Pond.

(2) At the end, bear left onto the car park entrance road and turn right to pass the Visitor Centre. Continue through the car park, following the signposted “Miller’s Walk”.

(3) Cross the footbridge over the outflow of the Miller’s Pond, then bear right around the bottom end. At the far side, go through a gate and turn right, still with the pond on your right.

(4) Go straight ahead to a gate, and follow the path beyond, with the Great Pool on your right. Leave the lakeside to pass below a smaller pond, the lowest of the Row Ponds. Beyond the next gate, head across the field to meet the wood on your right, and follow the woodland edge back to The Hardwick Inn. (S/E)

Waypoints

  1. S/E : mi 0 - alt. 394 ft - The Hardwick Inn
  2. 1 : mi 0.23 - alt. 404 ft - Stream - Great Pond
  3. 2 : mi 0.63 - alt. 381 ft - Visitor Centre
  4. 3 : mi 0.96 - alt. 358 ft - Miller’s Pond
  5. 4 : mi 1.37 - alt. 374 ft - Great Pool - Row Ponds
  6. S/E : mi 1.93 - alt. 390 ft - The Hardwick Inn

Notes

One steep climb on the longer walk. Woodland and field paths may be muddy.

Pdf link : http://walksfromthedoor.co.uk/i/walks/De...

The Hardwick Inn
Hardwick Park, Chesterfield
Derbyshire, S44 5QL
Tel : 01246850245
Website : www.hardwickinn.co.uk
Email : contact@hardwickinn.co.uk

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