White Peak Trails and Cycle Routes

1 White peak Trails and Cycle Routes Buxton (6 miles). Pennine Bridleway Continuation Choose a route of route 68 54 National Cycle route numbers Steep descent There's plenty of choice of Routes to Cycle whether you're planning a trail Very Steep descent short ride for an hour or so, or you would like a longer outing: End of To Bakewell Other off road Routes P Car park with picnic site High peak trail 5 The High peak trail is 17 miles long between Dowlow (at the Buxton 68 B50. 5. Monyash Routes using minor road WC Toilet Hurdlow Main road Information point end just 6 miles short of the town) and High peak Junction (close to Cromford). P Other minor roads Cycle Hire A5. Longnor The Tissington trail joins the High peak trail at Parsley Hay and runs 13. 1. Tunnel Distances shown in miles 5. 2. between red circles miles south to Ashbourne. B5053. Route 54 joins Middleton Top to Tissington via about 10 miles of You are advised not to Cycle down steep inclines on the Trails Dove country roads.

2 There is an additional route around Carsington Water of Parsley Hay about 8 miles. Valle Newhaven Tunnel P WC. 54C The Manifold Track is a 9 mile tarmac track along a disused railway y 2. Hig from Hulme End to Waterhouses. A section between Swainsley and hP. Wetton Mill is used by traffic (single track) and contains a tunnel 100m ea kT. Hartington ra il long at Swainsley; this is illuminated but still quite dark with small passing Station Friden P places to avoid vehicles. The Manifold Track Hartington P WC. This was the Leek and Manifold Valley P WC. 6. Newhaven Light Railway. It was built in 1904 to Biggin Hulme End transport dairy products from the P WC B5054 54B Matlock Beresford valley to the main railway south of 54. 54. ton trail To Bakewell Waterhouses. It was a light railway' Minninglow P. 3. because it used much narrower track Matlock Bath 5. Dale than the standard gauge' of mainline A6. in g 4. railways. The owners also hoped that Tiss Swainsley Tunnel 6 Cromford Wharf B5.

3 05 P WC. the old copper mines at Ecton would re- open - but they never did. The railway 2 Cromford High peak Junction 54. 54 A501. closed in 1934. One section of the Wetton Mill Cr om P WC. trackbed became a new road to Wetton P WC Longcliffe fo r d C an al Mill and the rest became a walking and Alstonefield Middleton Top 1 To Ambergate, Derby P WC End of cycling route. The old station at Hulme Alsop Black Rocks High peak trail End has been preserved and is now a P WC. P. Visitor Information Centre. Parwich Hopton B5. Tunnel 03. 3 54A. 2 Wirksworth 5 The High peak trail Brassington Hopton The Cromford and High peak Railway was one of the first 68 1 railways in the world. It was built between 1825 and 1830. B5023. 6. Manifo ld Track Sheepwash to link the peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge (north of 6. 54A. 05. Bradbourne P. B5. 5 Buxton) to the Cromford Canal a distance of 33 miles. The Tissington 2 railway itself was designed like a canal.

4 On the flat sections the 54A wagons were pulled by horses. Large steam powered beam P WC 4. Ilam Thorpe engines in engine houses' pulled the wagons up the steep Waterhouses Carsington Water P inclines' using cables (on a canal the inclines would have been P WC locks). P WC Fenny Bentley Carsington A5 2 Reservoir At Middleton Top the engine house with its massive beam 23. engine is open for visitors to wonder at (telephone 01629. 5. 03. B5 823204 for details of open days). The railway was adapted 2 Millfields over the years but finally closed completely in 1967. The The Tissington trail P WC section south of Buxton was then converted to the High peak A51. trail . 5. This was one of the last of the Victorian railways it opened in 1899. It supplied milk to London and several quarries were Mapleton Lane Carsington Water opened along the track sending limestone to the industrial P WC This 2 mile-long reservoir, managed by Severn Trent Water, was opened in areas.

5 The trail was created after the railway closed in 1967. Tunnel 1992 as an emergency reserve of water for Derby and the East Midlands. The signal box at Hartington Station has been preserved. You End of Cyclists can make a complete circuit of the reservoir over 8 miles long . Tissington trail Ashbourne crossing the dam and passing through the villages of Carsington and Hopton. can go inside and see how it worked. At its southern end P WC There are wildlife viewing points around the shore. A large modern Visitor the trail goes into a 600 metre long tunnel to emerge in the Continuation of route 68. centre of Ashbourne. To Derby Centre includes a children's play area, watersports centre, restaurant and shops. 2633 Trails leaflet 1 19/03/2010 11:26.