Above: Corbar Cross overlooks Buxton.
Click for a pdf with stage-by-stage details of the route including photos and a map, as well as links to car parks and public transport. A walking app GPX file is also available.
Length: 8.1mls | Av. time: 3.55hrs | Ascent: 1437ft
Start: Corbar Woods, Buxton | Google Map
Walk description, map & GPX | Download
An 8.1-mile circular walk from Corbar Woods, on the northern edge of Buxton. It’s usually easy to park nearby on Corbar Road, there’s a large car park in the Pavilion Gardens, and the station is about 15 minutes’ walk away – see Public transport.
The path climbs through the trees to Corbar Cross, with wonderful views over the Georgian spa town. The first cross was put up in 1950, given by the Duke of Devonshire to mark the Holy Year.
It was cut down with a chainsaw in 2010, in protest at Pope Benedict XVI’s visit – so its oak replacement, installed in 2011, has a metal rod through the middle!
The route then follows the edge of Combs Moss, past a wind turbine, before descending to the old Roman road between Buxton and Whaley Bridge, past White Hall Outdoor Centre.
Errwood Reservoir
It crosses the Long Hill road and the Bunsall Incline, part of the old Cromford & High Peak Railway, with wonderful views over Errwood Reservoir.
A couple of benches beside the water make a perfect half-way stop – the drowned hamlet of Goyt’s Bridge once lay just to the right.
The return climbs up the valley past a blocked railway tunnel – the path can be muddy in places – then crosses moorland and a golf course back to Corbar Woods.
Click for a pdf with stage-by-stage details of the route including photos and a map, as well as links to car parks and public transport. A walking app GPX file is also available.
Route photos
Stages 1-6 of the route. Click any to enlarge and scroll through.
Relive video
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