Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) Walk
From a remote bus stop onto one of England’s few great, untamed wildernesses: Bleaklow. Descend either across moors and Derwent River's Head, or Westend Valley.
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Trig Point on Westend Moor, with Bleaklow beyond
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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'Big Daddy', Barrow Stones; Westend Valley beyond
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Westend Valley towards Grinah Grain
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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View up across Howden Reservoir to Crow Stones Edge
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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The Path across Bleaklow
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Bleaklow Stones
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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The Path through the Groughs along the Watershed
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Deer Holes and Lands Side, Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Grinah Stones
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Grinah Stones and Ridgewalk Moor
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Grough at top of Grinah Stones
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Peat Hag at top of Grough
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Barrow Stones from Distance
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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'Big Daddy', Barrow Stones
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Individual Boulder, Barrow Stones
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Storm Shelter and Gritstone Boulder, Round Hill
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Backview to Barrow Stones from Round Hill
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Traces of Planned Heather burning across the Derwent Valley on Howden Dean
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Track deeply cut between Peat Banks, Ridgewalk Moor
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Grouse Butt on Track, Ridgewalk Moor
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Ravens Clough, from track across the Westend Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Grinah Stones, from track down Ridgewalk Moor
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Westend Valley towards Westend Head
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Westend Valley towards Howden Reservoir
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Backview to Grinah Stones from clear-felled plantation by River Westend
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Howden Reservoir, westerly arm
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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View across Howden Reservoir's westerly arm to Margery Hill (Howden Edge)
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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View across Howden Reservoir's westerly arm to Cow Hey
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Howden Dam and Abbey Bank
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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View across Howden Reservoir up Howden Clough to High Stones
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Howden Dam and Towers
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Stream tumbling down the wooded hill near Howden Dam
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Plantation across the Upper Derwent Reservoir, near Walker's Clough
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Bridge carrying track across stream out of Hollin Clough, Upper Derwent Reservoir
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Derwent Dam's East Tower, and Pike Low
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Memorial Stone to Tip, the dog
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Ashop Conduit flowing into Upper Derwent Reservoir
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Derwent Dam
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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An Overflowing Derwent Dam
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head) [Grinah Stones and Westend Valley Ending]
Oct-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Alport Castles and Dale, towards Bleaklow
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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The Tower, Alport Castles
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Alport Castles Landslip (far end), Alport River, Alport Valley Plantations
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Alport Dale towards Bleaklow
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Grinah Stones, Barrow Stones, Round Hill: the Alternative Descent
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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A Grough on Alport Moor
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Plane approaching Manchester Airport, above Bleaklow
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Deep Peaty Depressions (usually carrying well), on 'The Ridge'
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Gritstone Boulders near top of Bleaklow Plateau
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Big Slabs of Gritstone dotted about in mildly undulating moorland: Bleaklow
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Longdendale, from Bleaklow
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Bleaklow Stones (some of them)
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Bleaklow Stones (some of them)
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Bleaklow Stones (one of them)
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Barrow Stones across the Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Dean Head Stones, Horse Stone Naze and Crow Stones Edge
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Howden Edge and Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Barrow Stones from across Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Derwent River, Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Upper Derwent Valley, upstream
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Upper Derwent Valley, downstream
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Upper Small Clough, Upper Derwent Valley, towards Grinah Stones
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Lower Small Clough, Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Upper Derwent Valley, with Lower and Upper Small Clough joining on the left
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Track in Upper Derwent Valley towards Crow Stones Edge
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Oaken Bank, Little Moor and Howden Edge: Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Little Moor and Long Edge, from Oaken Bank: Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Backview from Oaken Bank along Derwent River towards Horse Stone Naze
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Cranberry Bed: view down Derwent River towards Slippery Stones
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Little Moor, Long Edge, Cranberry Clough: Upper Derwent Valley
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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Slippery Stones Bridge
SWC Walk 350 - Fairholmes Circular (via Bleaklow and Derwent Head)
Sep-19 • Thomas Grabow • On flickr
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