Dark Peak Boundary Walk
An 86-mile long-distance walk in the Peak District region between Manchester and Sheffield, following the Dark Peak boundary of the National Park. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SK 037 869
Distance: 86 miles (138 km)
Time: 35–43 hours
Duration: 6–8 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
OL1 The Peak District – Dark Peak Area
OL21 South Pennines – Burnley, Hebden Bridge, Keighley and Todmorden
OL24 The Peak District – White Peak Area
288 Bradford, Huddersfield and East Calderdale
Summary
The Dark Peak Boundary Walk is a long-distance circuit of approximately 86 miles around the fringes of Kinder Scout, Bleaklow, and Black Hill, the three great moorland masses that comprise the Dark Peak. The route is mainly high-level, but some of the valleys fringing the upland area and within it are visited too. Also featured are gritstone edges, wooded cloughs, and reservoirs. In the circuit of the Dark Peak from Hayfield, the route visits Chinley, Rushup Edge, Bradwell Moor, Batham Gate, Bradwell, Shatton Moor, Offerton Moor, Hathersage, Burbage Rocks, Stanage Edge, Strines, Derwent Edge, Cartledge Stones Ridge, Margery Hill, Howden Edge, Mickleden Edge, Highcliff Common, Langsett Reservoir, Carlecotes, Winscar Reservoir, Harden, Brownhill and Ramsden reservoirs, Holme, Digley Reservoir, Marsden Clough, Wessenden and Butterley reservoirs, Marsden, the Standedge Trail, Diggle, Running Hill Head, Rocher Brow, Board Hill, Dovestone Reservoir, Chew Reservoir, Ormes Moor, Tintwistle, Bottoms and Valehouse reservoirs, Glossop, Cown Edge, Rowarth, and Lantern Pike.