Parking at Chop Gate Village Hall, this is a fairly long route but quite level.
Heading East through some fields to the moors and a nivce little picnic spot. Then follow a hilltop North for a couple of miles, turn left down into the valley crossing the road and heading back to Chop Gate via the other side of the valley.
After leaving the car park, cross the road (B1257) following the road for a short distance, there's plenty of room on the grass by the side of the road.
Then turn left and star heading gradually uphill to the moors.
Local wildlife pic.
After crossing through some fields and starting to get to the moors here is the view back across the valley.
Then its time to head across the moors, note to self, I must visit this spot at the peak of the heather purpleness.
At the top of the moor we're going to head into the valley ahead of us. Here you can see the road up the other side of the valley, we'll be following this road down but not heading upwards, we only go as far as the valley bottom, the picnic site.
Here at the valley bottom is a nice little stream and picnic site. On the OS route map this is the bottom right part of the walk.
After a rest and a picnic it's time to head back up the track we came, back onto the top of the moors.
Following this track North at the top of the hill. Most of the way it was an easy gravel track...
But sometimes it was bit tricky...
And sometimes it was really tricky...
Worth it for the views though.
After a couple of miles along the hilltop it's a left turn down a dirt path to Urra, here it gets a little bit sketchy.
At the bottom of the hill is the main road, cross this and follow the footpath, South, parallel to the road, it passes through fields which at the time were a bit muddy and a bit "Bully".
One final animal pic as I crossed through more fields towards Chop Gate.
As I approached Chop gate and Tiggy, a pic looking back over the valley at the moor tops where I had been earlier.
