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Chatsworth - Peak District Walk
Monday 2nd November 2009
I feel a bit like nearly every other walk I have done this year has been around Chatsworth. As this one was done for one of the magazines I write for, I had no choice but to return to the Chatsworth estate again. After all the recent good weather I thought I'd missed my opportunity to get some good autumnal pictures on this walk, I was wrong.
Start: Hell Bank Plantation (SK 2867 6806)
Route: Hell Bank Plantation - Rabbit Warren - Swiss Lake - Hunting Tower - Queen Mary's Bower - Derwent Valley Way - Beeley - Hell Bank Plantation
Distance: 7.25 miles Ascent: 267 metres Time Taken: 3 hours 45 mins
Terrain: Good paths.
Weather: Sunny with a cold edge to the wind.
Pub Visited: None Ale Drunk: None
![Harland Edge Harland Edge](2009-11-02/harland%20edge.jpg)
Harland Edge, from Hell Bank Plantation.
![Stanton Moor Stanton Moor](2009-11-02/stanton%20moor.jpg)
Looking along the Derwent Valley, to Stanton Moor, from Rabbit Warren.
![Longstone Edge Longstone Edge](2009-11-02/longstone%20edge.jpg)
Approaching Stand Wood, with Longstone Edge on the horizon.
![Stand Wood Stand Wood](2009-11-02/stand%20wood.jpg)
Stand Wood.
![Swiss Lake Swiss Lake](2009-11-02/swiss%20lake.jpg)
Reflections in Swiss Lake.
![Hunting Tower Hunting Tower](2009-11-02/hunting%20tower.jpg)
Hunting Tower.
![Stable Yard Stable Yard](2009-11-02/xmas.jpg)
Christmas displays in the Stable Yard at Chatsworth.
![Queen Mary's Bower Queen Mary's Bower](2009-11-02/qm%20bower.jpg)
Queen Mary's Bower. I was particularly keen to look at this having recently read 'The Other Queen' by Phillipa Gregory which uses Chatsworth as one of its locations.
![River Derwent River Derwent](2009-11-02/derwent.jpg)
The view from the Bower, of the River Derwent and Baslow Edge.
![Chatsworth Chatsworth](2009-11-02/house.jpg)
The house at Chatsworth is undercover as it undergoes some repairs.
![Chatsworth Chatsworth](2009-11-02/house2.jpg)
Hunting Tower seen high above the main house.
![River Derwent River Derwent](2009-11-02/house1.jpg)
Not a bad spot for my lunch.
![River Derwent River Derwent](2009-11-02/weir.jpg)
The clouds must have gathered whilst I was eating as by the time I took the next picture it looked like a different day.
![Brunt Wood Brunt Wood](2009-11-02/brunt%20wood.jpg)
Heading towards Beeley with a view of Burnt Wood.
![Falling Edge Falling Edge](2009-11-02/falling%20edge.jpg)
Looking across the valley to Falling Edge.
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