(S/E) From New Mills Gold Club Clubhouse, cross Eaves Knoll Road and join the track to Shaw Farm, with the course on your left.
(1) After 400 yards, turn right into the farm entrance. Turn left in the farmyard and walk in front of the farmhouse, joining the track to the right of a wooded valley. Ignoring a path down to the stream, pass a gate.
When the track and wall turn right, cross the field ahead, descending slightly to a stile. Contour along the top of the next field, keeping fairly close to the wooded bank on your right, and go through a gate on the far side. Climb the bank on the right above a poultry shed through patchy heather and rocks.
In the top right-hand corner of the field, beyond a footpath sign, follow a short walled section then keep along the wall uphill to a stone stile by a gate at the top. Turn right and follow the path between fence and wall up to a stile into a driveway.
(2) Walk up the drive and at the entrance to Higher Capstone Farm bear left, ignoring the large “FOOTPATH” sign on the wall ahead. When the driveway bends right by a grit bin, take a footpath through a gate on the left, with an inconspicuous waymark. Follow this path below a house (Three Chimneys) and through three fields separated by farm gates.
(3) On reaching a driveway near Mellor Cross, turn right. Turn right at the crossroads along the metalled lane below the cross, past the sign for Higher Capstone Farm. Pass Three Chimneys Cattery and when the drive swings right, continue along the green lane ahead.
Keep straight on when a footpath is signposted to the right. At the end of the track, cross Rachel’s Stile into a field. Head across the field, initially above a gorsy bank then dropping right to a gate in a fence. Cross the next field to a stile at the right-hand end of a wood.
Turn left after the stile and walk below the wood to another stile by Peak and Northern Footpath Society sign no. 334. Turn right (“New Mills”) over a second stile and cross the field diagonally to the far left-hand corner.
(4) Go through a hand-gate and follow a path above a large pond and across the grass to a driveway. Turn right down the drive and follow it round a left-hand bend to Castle Edge Road. Turn right and follow the road back to New Mills Gold Club Clubhouse. (S/E)
