(S/E) Walk up the main entrance drive until just before you reach the road; cross a stile in front of you to cut a corner. Ignoring the entrance to Blackbrook Farm opposite, turn left and walk down the road, then cross carefully and follow a signposted footpath on the right, along the top of the field below the farm. At the far end, beyond the last barn, cross a stile and negotiate a boggy patch before following the wall downhill to a stile and then crossing the stream.
(1) Head diagonally up the slope, passing two hawthorn trees and aiming towards the buildings of Round Knoll Farm initially. Swing left, directly uphill, when you meet a tumbledown wall. Cross a stile as you approach the top of the hill, keeping along the wall. Turn left at the end of the field overlooking the Todd Brook valley. At a kink in the wall cross a stile on your right and follow the path obliquely down the slope, passing through a metal gate and ignoring the permitted path to Charles Head on your left.
(2) At Summer Close Farm, turn left and go through a gate by a PNFS sign. At the end of the fence turn right off the track and walk diagonally down to a footbridge. Walk up the opposite slope, aiming initially towards Windgather Rocks on the skyline, before swinging slightly left. Cross a stile and follow a line of trees, then swing right to a stile and cross a stream. Walk up the edge of the next field to a stile to the left of the abandoned farm and turn left. After two wall stiles, by two old stone gateposts go straight on (ignoring a stile on the right) to reach Mangers Carr Farm. Follow the driveway beyond, passing a series of farms, to the public road.
(3) Turn left and walk down to the B5470, turning right into Kettleshulme. Beyond the school, turn right into Flatts Lane. At the bottom of the hill, turn left along an unmade road. Just before the main road, a flight of steps on your left gives access to the Swan Inn. From the Swan turn left and walk up the main road, passing the school again and crossing over to follow the pavement for as long as it lasts. Beyond Spout House Farm, keep along the road for 500 yards until you reach Reed Bridge at the bottom of the valley.
(4) Cross over onto a farm track on the left, crossing a stone bridge just upstream of the road bridge. At a T-junction ignore the tracks and head straight on uphill, with a fence and hedge on your left, crossing a stile partway up. When the slope eases off slightly, before the path heads off left towards Charles Head Farm, leave the fence and head diagonally right to a waymark. Then follow a contouring path above the wooded valley of Gnathole.
(5) At the road, turn left and then right into the entrance to Whitelands; turn left off the farm drive at a cattle grid. Follow the path downhill, before crossing the stream on your left to reach a stile and heading slightly uphill.
(6) At PNFS sign no. 391 turn right down a walled track. Just before Further Harrop Farm, turn left and follow the left-hand side of the field down to the stream. Beyond the footbridge climb the steep slope to a stile, then follow the wall ahead back to Harrop Fold.(S/E)
