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Harboro Rocks - Peak District Walk
Saturday 20th May 2006
After a week when it hardly ever seemed to stop raining and with another week of rain forecast we took advantage of an apparent break in the rain to go for a short walk to nearby Harboro Rocks. The weather remained dry and quite sunny throughout our walk but within a minute of us leaving the car park it was raining again.
Start: Brassington car park (SK 234 547)
Route: Brassington car park - Limestone Way - High Peak Trail - Harboro Rocks (TP) - Brassington car park
Distance: 2.75 miles Ascent: 149 metres Time Taken: 1 hr 20 mins
Weather: Warm with occasional sunny spells.
Pub Visited: The Knockerdown, Knockerdown Ale Drunk: Black Sheep Special
![View south View south](2006-05-20/fields.jpg)
Looking south towards Bradbourne from the Limestone Way.
![Cowslip Cowslip](2006-05-20/flower.jpg)
I experiment with the macro setting on my camera to take a close-up of one of the many cowslips in the fields.
![Harboro Rocks Harboro Rocks](2006-05-20/rocks.jpg)
Harboro Rocks from the Limestone Way.
![Kiln Kiln](2006-05-20/kiln.jpg)
This is one of two structures that looked like kilns by the side of the High Peak Trail.
![High Peak Trail High Peak Trail](2006-05-20/high%20peak%20trail.jpg)
A wet High Peak Trail.
![Harboro Rocks Harboro Rocks](2006-05-20/rocks1.jpg)
From the High Peak Trail Harboro Rocks with the remains of an unknown building in the foreground.
![Harboro Rocks trig Harboro Rocks trig](2006-05-20/trig.jpg)
The summit trig on Harboro Rocks.
![Riber Castle Riber Castle](2006-05-20/riber.jpg)
Riber Castle, which overlooks Matlock, just misses out on a patch of sunlight as a dark cloud looms over us.
![The Edges The Edges](2006-05-20/edges.jpg)
Looking north the Edges are lit up on the horizon.
![Carsington Reservoir Carsington Reservoir](2006-05-20/car%20res.jpg)
Carsington Reservoir.
![Harboro Rocks Harboro Rocks](2006-05-20/rocks2.jpg)
The view east towards Nottingham from Harboro Rocks.
![Brassington Brassington](2006-05-20/brassington.jpg)
Brassington village, where we tried to have a drink after the walk but both pubs were shut.
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