(S/E) From Mo Cuishle campsiteturn right down Grange Lane.
(1) At the first road junction, with a postbox in the middle of the road, turn left, signposted Wilday Green. Pass Wilday House on your left and 100 yards after Vine Cottage (just before Wilday Meadow) turn right onto a footpath.
Follow the right-hand side of the first field. In the next field, with a tile-roofed stone barn to your right, bear slightly left to the top of a narrow wood.
(2) Don’t cross the stream, but turn right along the woodland edge, with wood and stream on your left. By a stile and gate, cross a small side-stream, then turn right, along a hedgerow and away from the wood. Walk along the bottom of two fields, then bear left, now with the hedge on your right, to meet a path coming up from the stream and wood on your left.
(3) Turn right here, across the middle of a field. After a gate by a holly tree, bear left along the bottom of the next couple of fields, towards the houses of Common Side. When you reach the bottom of Mods Lane, bear left along a short path around and through gardens to emerge by a loop of road at the end of a housing estate.
Walk down the road (Springfield Road) to the junction with Valley Road, the B6051 (the Tickled Trout is within sight to your right).
(4) Turn left, then right at a junction by a yew tree (“Unsuitable for heavy goods vehicles”). Beyond the fishery entrance keep right, to cross the Barlow Brook. Just beyond a bench on the left, take a footpath into the trees on the right. Follow this path parallel to the brook until it emerges above the fishing lakes.
(5) Here turn left (away from the lakes) and climb the end of the field into woodland again. At a crossroads of paths, with steps in front of you, turn right along a narrow path. Follow the path along the bottom of the wood, overlooking the fishing lakes, for half a mile, ignoring various opportunities to drop down onto the lakeside track to your right.
(6) At Lee Bridge, at the end of the fishing lakes, turn right and right again through the fishery car park if visiting the Fisherman’s Friend café, otherwise turn sharp left up a slightly rocky bridleway through the trees which leads through a gateway into a brief hollow way before emerging into open fields.
Follow the fieldside track to a gate, beyond which it narrows between hedges before meeting a road (Barlow Lees Lane.
(7) Walk straight on down the road for fifty yards, then take a footpath on the right (Dronfield 2000 Rotary Walk point K). Head down the field to a stile into woodland, and descend steps to a footbridge. Climb the grassy bank opposite, curving slightly to the right below a house.
A gap in the fence gives access to a fenced footpath, where you turn right through a tall kissing gate. Follow the path along the woodland edge to a pair of gates, then continue ahead with woodland now on all sides.
(8) Join a track at a junction and continue straight ahead, ignoring private tracks to left and right. After passing another private track leading off to the right, you pass close to a bridge over the A61 trunk road, a bridleway joining from the left.
Continue along the main track, ignoring a footpath on the right. Leave the woodland at Monkwood Farm and follow the farm drive across a field to cross the Barlow Brook among a cluster of houses at Furnace Farm.
(9) Follow the metalled Furnace Lane as it ascends from the brook and bears right (ignore a footpath off to the left at the bend). Eventually you pass Elm Tree Farm and emerge on Smeltinghouse Lane.
Turn left to reach the B6051 in Barlow. Turn left again, into the village. Just after the lych gate and before the Hackney House café and Peacock Inn, turn right onto a footpath alongside the church.
(10) Beyond the churchyard gate and a stone stile the path curves right and left past farm buildings and follows a wall (first on your right and then your left) uphill. Beyond a crossing path the way ahead leads across the middle of a series of fields to a second crossing path.
Cross another field to a stile then meet the hedge on the left-hand side of the next field, which leads to a gate into the grounds of Bole Hill House.
(11) Exit via the drive to the road, where you turn right and walk downhill to the junction with the postbox you met earlier (1). Take the road straight ahead (signposted Baslow) and walk back up Grange Lane to the campsite. (S/E)
