page_title: Peak District Boundary Walk
section_title: Route stages
hierarchical_section_title: Peak District Boundary Walk / Route stages
caption_attribution_description: English: Stone Cross in Shillito Wood
context_page_description: The Peak District Boundary Walk is a circular 190-mile walking trail, starting and finishing at Buxton and broadly following the boundary of the Peak District, Britain's first national park. The route was developed by the Friends of the Peak District and was launched on 17 June 2017.
  The Friends of the Peak District's founders, Gerald and Ethel Haythornthwaite, proposed the boundary of the Peak District National Park, which was subsequently established as the United Kingdom's first National Park in 1951.
  The route is waymarked with green markers and uses existing footpaths, tracks, quiet lanes, disused railway lines and a canal towpath. The start and finish is at the King's Head pub on Buxton Market Place, where a plaque has been installed by the Peak & Northern Footpaths Society. The terrain covers open moorlands of the South Pennines, the limestone scenery of the Derbyshire Dales, woodlands, reservoirs and rural farming countryside. Most of the trail is in Derbyshire but also goes through sections of Staffordshire, Cheshire and Yorkshire. The total ascent is 7,590 metres with a highest point of 506 metres at the summit of Shutlingsloe.
context_section_description: The trail is divided into twenty stages of about 10 miles (16 km) long, in a clockwise direction around the Peak District.
  1. Buxton to Peak Forest
  From Buxton market place, along the Midshires Way past Staden Low, through Cowdale, down Deep Dale, along the River Wye up to Chee Dale, through Wormhill, up Peter Dale and through Hay Dale nature reserve to Peak Forest (10.2 miles/16.4 km).
  2. Peak Forest to Hayfield
  From A623 road at Peak Forest across fields to Blackbrook (on the outskirts of Chapel-en-le-Firth), heading north across farmland to reach and follow the Pennine Bridleway, past Mount Famine and along the stream into Hayfield (9.7 miles/15.6 km).
  3. Hayfield to Glossop
  Along the Sett Valley Trail west out of Hayfield, north along the Pennine Bridleway, over Lantern Pike hill, through Rowarth, along Cown Edge Way (over Cown Edge ridge and the top of Coombes Edge) into Glossop (9 miles/14 km).
  4. Glossop to Greenfield (Dovestone Reservoir)
  Past Swineshaw Reservoir, along the Etherow-Goyt Valley Way by Bottoms Reservoir, past Arnfield Reservoir along the Pennine Bridleway, between Higher Swineshaw and Lower Swineshaw reservoirs, over Swineshaw Moor, rejoining the Pennine Bridleway up to Dovestone Reservoir near Greenfield (9.8 miles/15.8 km).
  5. Dovestone Reservoir to Marsden
  Along the west wide of Dovestone Reservoir, along the Oldham Way over Pots and Pans hilltop, along Shaw Rocks ridge, across fields to Diggle, joining the Pennine Way over the moors, past Brun Clough and Black Moss, Swellands and Wessenden reservoirs, along the hillside heritage trail above Butterley Reservoir and down into Marsden (10.6 miles/17.1 km).
  6. Marsden to Holme
  Heading east from Marsden over Deer Hill Moss, past Deer Hill Reservoir, across fields and along lanes past Meltham, up Royd Edge and Harden Moss Road track, down to Digley Reservoir, across the dam, following the Kirklees Way into Holme (8.5 miles/13.7 km).
  7. Holme to Langsett
  Along the Kirklees Way from Holme over the dam between Ramsden Reservoir and Brownhill Reservoir, up Crow Hill, along the Holme Valley Circular Walk across forested hillside, down the east side of Winscar Reservoir, along the Trans Pennine Trail by the south side of the River Don, across to and along the wooded north shore of Langsett Reservoir to Langsett (10.5 miles/16.9 km).
  8. Langsett to Low Bradfield
  Out of Langsett village along Edge Cliff past Midhope Reservoir, across fields and along lanes to Bolsterstone, past the west end of More Hall Reservoir, across fields and along lanes to High Bradfield and Agden Reservoir, onto Low Bradfield (10.5 miles/16.9 km).
  9. Low Bradfield to Ringinglow
  Along the side of Damflask Reservoir, up lanes to and through Royds Clough woods, over the A57 road, through Wyming Brook nature reserve, through woods above Rivelin Dams reservoirs, past Redmires Reservoirs, along paths and lanes to Ringinglow (9 miles/14 km).
  10. Ringinglow to Millthorpe
  Heading south along the Houndkirk Bridleway past woodland onto Houndkirk Moor, down through woods, up onto Totley Moor, along Brown Edge and Flask Edge, down a track off the moor, alongside Millthorpe Brook and along a lane and path through fields to Millthorpe (9.3 miles/15.0 km).
  11. Millthorpe to Beeley
  Out of Millthorpe to the west then south through Shillito Wood past the ancient stone cross, across open moorland past Nelson's monument on Birchen Edge, along a track around Gibbet Moor past Hob Hurst's House burial mound, down a path by Beeley Brook into Beeley (10.6 miles/17.1 km).
  12. Beeley to Winster
  Up the hillside to woods overlooking Chatsworth Park, back down to cross the River Derwent and the River Wye at Rowsley, down the lane past Stanton Woodhouse and up to Nine Ladies stone circle, continuing across Stanton Moor, down a footpath into Winster (6 miles/9.7 km).
  13. Winster to Roystone Grange
  Along the Limestone Way across fields from Winster, over Bonsall Moor and into Bonsall village, rejoining the Limestone Way after Slaley through Grangemill and onto the Pennine Bridleway through Longcliffe to Roystone Gran
caption: Stone Cross in Shillito Wood
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