(S/E) From the end of Stonecroft drive, turn left and walk into the centre of the village.
(1) Opposite the Old Nags Head, turn left onto the Pennine Way and follow it along a hedged section then along paved paths through a series of fields. Leave the Pennine Way just before it starts to descend, on a Concessionary Path to the right, which leads over bumpy ground to a gate below the craggy scar of a landslip.
(2) Turn left, then descend to a small plantation. Cross a steam and pass through a gate, climbing briefly to a second gate. Descend until you meet a small side-stream, then turn left to meet the main path down the valley.
(3) Turn left, with the main stream on your right. Beyond a gate at the end of open country, the path turns right and down to a footbridge among the trees; climb up the other side to a gate. Walk down the field and cross a stile just before a stone barn.
(4) Follow the path along the stream to rejoin the Pennine Way at the road at Upper Booth. Turn left then left again into the farmyard (if wet, continue along the road to Barber Booth, as the footpath can be muddy). Beyond the farmyard, join a waymarked path through a gate straight ahead. Follow this path past a series of hand gates and small footbridges, meeting a farm track after a field gate.
(5) This track leads over a railway bridge to Whitmore Lea Farm. Beyond the farm, walk through Barber Booth, passing the chapel on your left, and bear left at the next junction.
(6) After the last (brick) house, take a track on the left and recross the railway. Turn right and keep along the bottom of the next field, to a squeeze stile and gate.
(7) Cross the next field half left to a short paved section, then bear left at the sign to Edale Station, aiming just right of Shaw Wood Farm. Cross the driveway to a stile and gate, and aim across the field to an obvious track, where you will find a stile to the right of the gate. Follow the hedge beyond to emerge via a grassy area between
houses. Turn left at the road to return to Stonecroft. (S/E)
