(S/E) Leave The Church Inn pub and turn right down the main village street, passing the Chelmorton Troughs.
(1) Turn right into Common Lane and follow it for 1⁄4 mile until a footpath crosses at right angles; turn left into a walled trackway. Pass a small farm building on your left and then, just after the track bends sharp right, cross a stone stile on your left, next to a gate, into open fields.
(2) Head half right towards a clump of trees. Follow a path between walls to the right of the trees, at one point climbing a stone stile next to a gate, until you meet the main road (A5270). Turn left.
When the road bends left, take a path on the right in the corner and turn half-left, slightly away from the dale on your right, aiming for a telegraph pole in the middle of the field.
(3) At a stone stile turn slightly left and follow the broken wall back to the main road (A5270). Turn right and walk down the main road past a house and into Horseshoe Dale.
(4) At the bottom turn right through a gate and between farm buildings to join the dale proper. Look out for Bullhay Dale Calcite Mine on your right. Keep on down the main dale on your right-hand side, which becomes gradually deeper and rockier and enters the Topley Pike and Deep Dale SSSI.
(5) The obvious entrance to Thirst House Cave appears above and to the right of the path. Just beyond the cave, the dale is crossed by the Midshires Way. The path down the dale beyond this point is subject to a long-term closure, so turn right onto a narrow path up the steep daleside, zig-zagging past another small cave.
(6) Once out of the dale, bear right (South-East) to a wall stile, then cross three more fields in the same direction to reach a walled farm track.
(7) Turn left, then right at a junction of tracks. Follow the track past a barn on your left, and then the entrance to Burrs Farm, before reaching the main road (A5270).
Cross the road and take a few steps to the left, then follow the track to Shepley Farm opposite. Follow the track, bearing left then right by the farm, to reach Chelmorton and then The Church Inn pub. (S/E)
