Rivelin & Redmires

We parked at a small car park on Lodge Lane just below Lodge Moor, and set off west across open hillside on a well marked bridleway, before entering the trees of Fox Hagg.
This brought us down to the side of Rivelin Reservoir before gaining height again and getting onto Wyming Brook Drive, an old byway.
When the byway turned north and east to get to the A57 Snake Pass we turned left instead up the hill side towards New Hagg, and then turned left along the tree line skirting White Rake and Ash Cabin Flat before dropping into the car park at the southern end of Wyming Brook Drive.
Turning right on the road to Redmires we walked on tarmac for a while before turning into Redmire Plantation and towards the Redmires Reservoir works.
Passing the eastern most reservoir we reached the road, and headed north briefly before turning east and following the line of Redmires Conduit to Lodge Moor.
We passed through the grounds of what was Lodge Moor hospital - an isolation hospital for treatment of all sorts of nasties, now a new housing development - before reaching Redmires Road again, which we crossed, before following the footpath below the houses to the car park.

Date Walked: 10Oct12
Distance: 5.9 miles
Time: 2h31m
Ascent: 860'
Descent: 941'

Points to note

• These walks are listed as a record of walks that we have done. If you wish to follow them then you do so at your own risk.
• Distances given are those recorded on our GPS as Track Distance.
  Actual distance walked may be slightly longer, due to the way that the two distances are calculated. This article explains why.
• Times given may or may not include breaks.
• You'd expect on a circular walk that the Ascent and Descent values would be the same, right?
  Well, yes, but sometimes I didn't stop the track at the exact same place I started it, and also sometimes it takes a while to get a strong enough 3D fix for a reasonably accurate altitude setting.
• Any photos shown will be of the ground covered by the walk, but may cover more than one visit.