Start: Hathersage
End: Castleton
Distance: 21km
Started by heading to the river, though thanks to the map in the hostel followed footpath rather than road as initial planned. The route followed the derwent valley heritage way along the river to shatton. Was a little surprised at one point to see a waymarker for another route pointing straight across the river with no sign of a bridge, a quick look at the map and getting closer to the point showed that the crossing was by stepping stones! Not one for after a lot of rain.
From shatton it was up to win hill. It was a little windy up on top so was quite glad to be heading back down the hill. As it was getting close to lunch time I thought I’d make a short detour to Hope in the quest of a pub lunch, to find both of the pubs closed. So off up to lose hill it was, where I would eat the sandwiches I had just incase.
The next part of the walk followed the ridge between lose hill and mam tor. I have done this part of the walk before, parts of it twice. Though for the first time it wasn’t raining which meant there were fantastic views to both sides of the ridge.
As it looked like I would arrive into Castleton quite early, I decided to go on one of the cavern tours, the one I went on was sidewalk cavern, not sure it was worth it but it used up dome time that would otherwise be spent hanging around the hostel.
Tonight’s accommodation is Castleton YHA which is one of the few if not the only hostel that has a curfew. Most now have code locks to allow you in after reception closes but here the door is licked at 11:30 and if your out your out for the night, having said that the chances of being out that late in a village like this is slim, though there are 6 pubs.