Start: The Duke of York, Pomeroy, Flagg, Buxton SK17 9QG (Tel. 01298 83345)
(S/E) Turn left out of The Duke of York car park and then immediately left over a stile. Walk down to a gate and then bear half-left across three fields separated by stiles to a clump of trees, the site of a demolished
barn. Follow the left-hand edge of the field beyond (not the diagonal track across the field) to reach a narrow lane (Pasture Lane).
(1) Turn left for about 70 yards, then right onto another footpath. Follow the right-hand edge of the field over the shoulder of a slight hill. Cross a track made of concrete beams and continue down the right-hand side of two further fields until you reach a gate into a lane at the end of Flagg village, by a small car park.
(2) Walk straight on down the lane past the first houses, and then left at the junction by the entrance to Flagg Hall, passing behind a bus stop and a telephone box. Follow the main village street through Flagg, leaving the village at the delimit signs. Carry on down the main road to the junction.
(3) At a road junction (signposted to Chelmorton) turn left past the gates of The Old Farmhouse. At the end of a farm lane, on a left-hand bend, turn right through a hand gate on the corner into a field to the right of the farm track.
Walk up the field to a gateway in the far corner by a small wood, and continue in a similar direction to a gap in the dry-stone wall at the far side of the next field. Bear a little left to the far corner of the subsequent field and cross the tumbledown wall.
Drop down into a shallow valley slightly to your left and cross a stone step-stile by a footpath sign. Walk up the valley and then bear left to the far left-hand corner of the field, where another stone step-stile leads into the road.
(4) Turn left to a road junction; for the shortcut route (_A_) (saving a mile, but missing out the village of Chelmorton), turn left along the Pennine Bridleway (signposted “High Peak Trail 1¾”) for a mile, rejoining the described route Blinder House way point (6), below. Otherwise, if visiting Chelmorton, continue straight on. At the next road junction, turn right and follow the road down to the village, bearing left when you reach the first houses.
(5) At the junction with the main street, turn right to visit the church, or left to continue down the main road. Walk down through the village, passing the village water troughs, the end of Common Lane, and the former Primitive Methodist Hall.
(6) At a crossroads at the end of the village, go straight on down Pippenwell Road (signposted Newhaven and Ashbourne). Climb the hill then descend gradually; about a mile from the junction, the Pennine Bridleway joins from the left. Continue past Blinder House to the main road.
(7) Cross the road and turn right along the fenced bridleway parallel to the road, then turn left at another Pennine Bridleway sign. After 400 yards, turn left onto the High Peak Trail.
(8) Follow the Trail for half a mile, passing under a bridge after 500 yards. Just after a second brick overbridge, turn left over a step-stile to leave the High Peak Trail.
(9) Walk up the field back to the A515 and the Duke of York (S/E)
