David and Jacinta's Walks- 2025

A Chinley Scamper We nipped out for a couple of hours to get a bit of fresh air and to walk before the rain set in. After a coffee and wedge of excellent cake at The Green Lane Social, we took the route up Over Hill Road, past Throstle Bank and took the path opposite the New Allotments to avoid some scary (early Halloween?) cows and their calves. This took us to above the quarries that we usually walk below which was an interesting new perspective. Blasted Heath This walk was nothing remarkable, but still enjoyable as we managed to dodge the cows, admire the extent of the quarries and observe the hunting buzzards. Chinley is such a good starting point and very rarely disappoints. A walk of 3½ miles with 260m ascent.

Chinley, New Allotments and Whiterakes We fancied a short walk on the bank holiday Saturday and Chinley fitted the bill. It's not too far from home, and there's been a parking space for us every time we've been there. We chose the gentle way up, along Stubbins Lane and Over Hill Road, turning up the bridleway just past Throstle Bank. We'd seen common buzzards from Over Hill Road about a year ago, but none were around today, sadly. The bridleway passes thorough the "New Allotments" and a quick and lazy search with Google didn't really shed any light on the origin of the name- the OS map shows the area as heath or rough grassland. There's a mention here , but it just relates to the square on the OS map itself. The view of Kinder was great, and it's always good to spot the shooting lodge and its little outhouse from any walk. Mill Hill, the edge of Kinder and the shooting lodge We crossed over to the east side of the Chinley Churn ridge, descending pa...

Sett Valley Café and Chinley Churn As we have done for the past two years, we had a "Celebration Breakfast" at the Sett Valley Café- an enjoyable indulgence as ever! Breakfast portraits! We had left our choice of walking route pretty fluid but, in the end we decided to walk up towards New Allotments and see how we felt from that point. Looking back to Lantern Pike The cloud base was pretty low, but we could see the dusting of snow on Kinder Low. Kinder Low (with snow) in the distance We were going pretty well, so we decided to go the whole way down to the Throstle Bank farm and return via Cracken Edge and Peep o Day. Striding out above New Allotments Even though there was a very chilly breeze from time to time, we had a thoroughly enjoyable walk of 7.8 miles with 450m ascent.