🌳Tideswell Dale 8 miles🌸Water Cum Jolly🌼Cressbrook and Tansley Dale🌸Litton🌳

This varied walk is one not to miss, through beautiful scenic Nature Reserves Woodland and Waterside paths.

This stunning walk starts at Tideswell,
a large characterful village with shops cafes and pubs. It has a rich history dating back to pre-Roman times. It owed its wealth in the Middle Ages to lead mining and wool production.
Tideswell is noted for its textile industry with the nearby mills of Cressbrook and Litton which produced cotton. The main Church is situated in the centre of the village, built in the 14th century, it contains impressive wood carvings and monuments.

Leaving Tideswell Village, our route heads into the scenic Tideswell Dale. The foot of the valley of Tideswell Dale, leads into Miller's Dale and the brook runs into the River Wye.
It's an impressive limestone Gorge and nature reserve, home to an abundance of wildlife being a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

The peaceful walk through Tideswell Dale leads us to Litton Mill and Water Cum Jolly. Water Cum Jolly is a beautiful river gorge with limestone cliffs.

Our path turns off and goes up the beautiful Cressbrook Dale Nature Reserve, a steep sided dale and magnificent limestone chasm with varied plant and wildlife, the far reaching views are stunning all around us. The path veers off and joins the rocky Tansley Dale.
The name Cressbrook comes from the watercress once grown in the stream that runs through the valley. There are steepish paths, leading through ash woods to grassy landscape dotted with rockrose and alive with butterflies and moths, broken by rocky outcrops and screes.

Leaving the pretty dales, we head for Litton, a small charming village with pretty cottages surrounding ancient stocks on the village green.

Our route leads us through Litton Village along lanes back to the start in Tideswell.

An undulating walk with some gradual ascents but easy paths along trails

Toilet in Tideswell

Bring a picnic lunch snacks and enough water for the walk

Catching up stops and breaks as always

Walking boots are advisable, as always, check the weather and dress accordingly

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