Linacre Reservoirs

A lake- and streamside stroll in a wooded valley with distant views of Chesterfield’s twisted spire.

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  • Walking
    Activity: Walking
  • ↔
    Distance: 7.71 km
  • ◔
    Calculated time: 2h 35 
  • ▲
    Difficulty: Moderate

  • ⚐
    Return to departure point: Yes
  • ↗
    Vertical gain: + 139 m
  • ↘
    Vertical drop: - 139 m

  • ▲
    Highest point: 292 m
  • ▼
    Lowest point: 167 m

Description de la randonnée

(S/E) From Mo Cuishle campsite turn left up Grange Lane. Just before High Ashes Farm, turn left onto a bridleway that skirts the garden. By the farmhouse, turn left, through a gate and downhill.

(1) Keep straight on over a crossing path, up a slight rise and descend to a small stream. Climb the other side to a farm track; turn right and follow it to the B6050. Turn right for 200 yards to a junction, and take the driveway on the left with a sign for Bluster Castle.

(2) When the drive bends left, follow a signposted footpath on the right. Beyond a wall stile, keep straight ahead to another track. When the track swings left by the entrance to Birley Grange Cottage Farm (identified by a plaque on a millstone), go straight ahead, past a small pond on the left.

(3) At a metalled driveway, turn left below a pond and follow the drive to the left (ignoring a footpath ahead). At a pair of automatic gates, turn left onto a bridleway which bears right to Birley Farm with views down the Linacre valley to Chesterfield.

Beyond a hand gate, walk past the farm entrance and descend between narrowing walls to another gate. Bear left and follow the main path downhill; when an obscure path joins from the left, bear right.

(4) Near the bottom, turn left through gateposts and cross the stream, following it downstream on your left. Beyond a second pair of gateposts, turn left over a footbridge, and then turn right along the stream.

Ignore a second footbridge and continue to concrete stepping stones over a side- stream. Continue along the valley bottom, then briefly head left (uphill) alongside a wall to a hand-gate on your right. Turn right into the woodland. Take the lower (right-hand) path ahead of you through the wood, parallel with the stream to your right.

(5) On reaching a broad track by a boardwalk, keep straight on, left of the Upper Reservoir. Skirt an inlet and cross a stream, continuing along the track nearest to the reservoir. Beyond the dam, bear left, above the Middle Reservoir.

At the second dam, turn left, away from the reservoirs. By a dog waste bin, turn left up some shallow steps to the car park. Follow the entrance track out to the B6050.

(6) Turn left for 200 yards then, immediately before the first house, cross the road and go over a stile. Walk alongside the boundary of the property and between chicken coops to a track. Turn right briefly then leave the track over a stile on the left.

Cut the corner to near the left-hand farmhouse to another stile. Turn left and descend along the right-hand side of a narrow field.

(7) At the bottom, a track bends left to a gateway; the path continues steeply to an awkward crossing over a small stream, best bypassed by following the track. Turn right along the woodland edge to a footbridge. Climb the steps to a stile, and cross to a stone barn.

Pass to the left of the barn and climb the field beyond. When you meet Oaks Lane, keep straight ahead to Grange Lane.

(8) Turn left for 300 yards back to Mo Cuishle campsite. (S/E)

Waypoints

  1. S/E : km 0 - alt. 234 m - Mo Cuishle campsite
  2. 1 : km 0.3 - alt. 228 m - Small stream - B6050
  3. 2 : km 1.32 - alt. 291 m - Bluster Castle - Birley Grange Cottage Farm
  4. 3 : km 1.89 - alt. 262 m - Small pond - Birley Farm
  5. 4 : km 2.64 - alt. 210 m - Stream - Valley bottom
  6. 5 : km 3.66 - alt. 198 m - 2 Reservoir
  7. 6 : km 5.57 - alt. 196 m - Road
  8. 7 : km 6.23 - alt. 175 m - Small stream - Stone barn
  9. 8 : km 6.97 - alt. 204 m - Grange Lane
  10. S/E : km 7.71 - alt. 234 m - Mo Cuishle campsite

Practical information

Several moderate climbs. May be muddy after rain.

Please note that parking at Mo Cuishle is for guests only. Non-residents please start these walks elsewhere such as the car park in Millthorpe.

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

Mo Cuishle
Grange Lane, Barlow, Dronfield, Derbyshire
S18 7TG
Tel 07796 207372
Email admin@centaur-equestrian.co.uk

In the nearby area

  • Mo Cuishle site is a wildlife haven, where the habitat is carefully managed by the owners who take a lot of time to keep it as a safe environment where local critters can flourish. You'll likely spot rabbits, bats, brown owls, buzzards, hawks and foxes, and for the fortunate, resident hares and badgers. Native and visiting birds will be fluttering about overhead for most of the day too.
  • The Royal Oak at Millthorpe has limited opening hours.

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