(S/E) From the Duke of York pub and campsite, cross the A515 carefully, and take the footpath opposite, left of the entrance to Street Farm. Go through a gate and walk down the field to the High Peak Trail (aka Midshires Way).
(1) Cross the stile left of the bridge onto the Trail and turn left. Follow the Trail for half a mile, crossing three small bridges with fences to either side.
(2) Immediately after the third bridge, leave the Trail on the left, dropping down the embankment to a footpath sign below the bridge. Turn right and follow a path through three meadows towards the black-and-white Bull i’ th’ Thorn pub. In the fourth field, turn left to the main road.
(3) Turn right along the road to the pub. Beyond the Bull i’ th’ Thorn, cross over and turn left down a driveway. Follow it past the Donkey Sanctuary and carry straight on when it becomes a grassy green lane.
(4) At a wider track near a stone barn, turn right along the track past a farm, ignoring a track to the right (no right of way). Just after a righthand bend, leave the track on a signposted footpath on your left. Cross a series of fields separated by stone stiles, then bear left after a walled green lane. Do not take the walled lane, carry on the footpath you are walking. Turn right past the end cottage into a private lane. Take a few steps left, then turn right along a mown footpath into Monyash.
(5) Turn right towards the school to visit the village green and then come back up the road. Otherwise turn left past the chapel. Follow the road out of the village, passing a turning to Sheldon on the right and the old pinfold on the left.
(6) At Dalehouse Farm, turn left in front of the farmhouse on the Limestone Way. Follow the walled track up the hill ((A) a short optional detour into a wood on the right towards the top allows you to view the grilled mineshaft of Wharf Mine).
Continuing along the Limestone Way, walk by the barn you passed before (on your left) and continue along a walled green lane ahead. At PNFS sign no. 377 cross a camping field and after a stile walk above a belt of trees to a gate. Follow the wall beyond to join a metalled drive and walk out over a cattle grid to the road.
(7) Follow the road ahead (Mycock Lane) to where it bends right before the first houses in Flagg. Turn left through a gate here, and follow the wall uphill through a couple of fields. Cross a track of concrete beams and cross another stile, continuing along the field edge to a narrow lane (Pasture Lane).
(8) Turn left for 70 yards then right at a footpath sign, and walk up the side of the field to a clump of trees. Bear half-left across the next two fields. Aim to the left of the campsite wall and pass over a couple of stiles back to the main road and the Duke of York. (S/E)
