Pennine Bridleway
The Pennine Bridleway is a new National Trail in northern England.
It runs approximately parallel to the Pennine Way and allows the use of riders, cyclists and pedestrians. In its southern part, it follows the High Peak Trail along the trackbed of the former Cromford and High Peak Railway. The road is approximately 209 km (130 miles) long, 117 km (73 miles) from Derbyshire to the southern Pennines plus the 76 km (47 mile) Mary Towneley loop road and 16 km (10 miles ) long Settle - trail. The highest points along the route are South Head Hill in Derbyshire ( Rushup between Edge and Hayfield ) and Top of Leach, the highest point on the Mary Towneley loop trail.
Itinerary
The Pennine Bridleway starts in Middleton -by- Wirksworth, Derbyshire, mainly on historic trails and paths along the flanks of the Pennines. He first follows the High Peak Trail on a disused railway line that runs through the limestone of the White Peaks. An alternative starting point is the site of the former Hartington railway station via a short section of the Tissington Trail before it encounters in Parsley Hay on the High Peak Trail. Behind the limestone plateau is the Milestone Grit of the Dark or High Peak area from where the trail follows a packhorse road from Tideswell about Peak Forest to Hayfield where he briefly runs along an old railway line to another disused railway, the Sett Valley Trail.
As soon as he leaves Derbyshire towards Greater Manchester, traces the edge of a heather moor and an old trunk road along the Tame Valley. From here the path leads down to a stillgelegegten Railway, from where the route continues towards the Hollingworth Lake. Later, the Mary Towneley loop trail that rises to the highest point of the trail follows: For Leach with 474 meters ( 1,555 ft). The road passes through the town of Waterfoot in the Rossendale Valley and follows a new route on Lumb, the Cliviger Gorge and Long Causeway. The path then follows the Gorple Road, a remote part of the path that leads to Blackshaw Head. The path then leads to the Calder Valley and the town of Hebden Bridge, where the route on the London Road leading towards Bottomley.