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(S/E) From Rosie Lee Tearoom front door of the tearoom, turn left up Kinder Road. Pass Hayfield Library and Vicarage Lane on your left, and Spring Vale Road on your right.
After 350 yards, as the slope levels off, turn left into a driveway (Kinder Road) with a Peak and Northern Footpath Society sign indicating the start of the Snake Path.
(1) Bear left through a gate at the top of the driveway and follow a track up to a further gate into open fields.
Follow the obvious field along the bottom of a field to a kissing gate and cross the next field to the far right-hand corner, passing above the clump of sycamores known locally as Twenty Trees (although there are actually only nineteen).
Follow the wall on your left for a short distance, then strike out across the field to a further kissing gate. The track beyond leads alongside the wall and then crosses rough pasture to a gate into open moorland.
(2) Bear right along the wall, in the direction of the white-painted shooting cabin and Kinder Scout behind it.
Just before the wall on your right ends, an indistinct path leads off through the heather to the left.
This is the path to Little Hayfield, but a short and recommended diversion continues across the moor to the Shooting Cabin, returning the same way. Bear right at the Shooting Cabin for views over Kinder Reservoir before retracing your steps.
Having returned to the path junction at the start of the moorland, take the descending path (West) across the moor towards Park Woods and Little Hayfield. This runs to the left of and parallels to a small valley.
(3) On reaching the wall encircling Park Hall Wood, by a National Trust sign for Middle Moor, cross a track following the wall, go through the gate and turn left, away from the semi-circular stables, when you reach the driveway (Park Lane).
Walk down the driveway to the A624 in Little Hayfield; the former Park Hall swimming pool is among the trees to your right. When you reach the main road, cross straight over into Slack Lane. Walk down the lane.
(4) At a small green on the left, take the footpath to the left (signposted to “Hayfield 1⁄2 mile”). Follow the well-surfaced path through a series of fields to a gate into a lane (Bank Vale Road). Turn left and follow the lane to its end, at the junction by the entrance to Oaklands.
(5) Turn left and walk past the junctions with Swallow House Crescent on your left, The Glade and then Wood Gardens on your right (opposite Lea Road). Turn right into the May Queen Field (recreation ground). Walk down to the river and follow the path left (upstream).
(6) Pass the footbridge and the remains of Walk Mill and go under the bypass bridge. When you reach Market Street, cross over and turn right up Kinder Road. Follow the road back to Rosie Lee Tearoom. (S/E)
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