Baslow and the Five Edges Walk, 21st April 2019

Roger led nine walkers (including himself and Ashok from Leicester) on Sunday's classic 10½ mile Five Edges walk from Birchen Edge car park near Baslow in superb weather. The walk started from the back of the Robin Hood Inn and took in Birchen Edge, Nelson’s Monument and the Three Ships, White Edge, Froggatt Edge, Curbar Edge and Baslow Edge. Along the way we visited a stone circle, the Eagle Stone and Wellington’s Monument. Some weary walkers took refreshments in the Grouse.

The start at the Birchen Edge car park

Typical mossy landscape below these west-facing edges

The gritstone edges have been the training ground for some of the UK’s greatest rock climbers.

Nelson's Monument

Adder seen on recce

Trig point 310m, Birchen Edge

Coffee stop on White Edge

Trig point 365m, White Edge

Young skylark (allegedly)

Heading down to the Grouse Inn

Lunch

View west from Baslow Edge

Stone Circle

Eagle Stone.  The age old custom is that before they are allowed to marry, the young men of Baslow have to prove their manliness and fitness for marriage by climbing onto the top of this huge stone.

Wellington's Monument on Baslow Edge. Standing high above the village of Baslow, it is dedicated to the Duke of Wellington and a celebration of his victory at the battle of Waterloo in 1815

A distant view of Gardom’s Edge

Heading back to the Robin Hood