Tuesday August 19th
Combs Moss and Castle Naze from Buxton In preparation for our forthcoming walking trip to The Dolomites, we decided to see if we could manage three walks on successive days- this was the first! The Walking in the Peak District - White Peak West Cicerone Guide said that the views were panoramic, something that we looked forward to, and that the fort at Castle Naze was not visible from below and we looked forward to seeing both. Unfortunately the cloud was down so, for the first part of the walk, the views weren't that great. The walk started from a quiet residential road in Buxton (there were some quite impressive stone-built houses) and goes up past a couple of overgrown and green reservoirs. The woods ("Light Wood") are a nature reserve financed by Nestlé, possibly to engender goodwill from the spa town. Hopefully, not as a supply to their bottled water, looking at the state of the reservoirs. There's a fairly steep but clear path up to the path running north-east al...