Flower by flower the Spring begins. Some years the flowers all come in a rush with High Dale banked with cowslips and Deep Dale too, while even the common dandelion looks magnificent when a golden carpet of them covers the fields. In the shade of the woods there are bluebells and violets and masses of ramsons with their white globe-like flowers and unmistakeable smell of garlic. We even found primroses, formerly a rarity in this part of the Peak.
LOCATION: 8 miles east of Buxton
START: A6 White Lodge pay & display picnic site
Grid ref: SK170706 Postcode: SK179UH
DISTANCE: 7 miles
GRADE: Moderate
TIME: 3 hours
MAP: Explorer OL - White Peak Landranger 119
REFRESHMENTS: Queen's Arms
EN ROUTE: Brushfield Hough, Bluebells, Oriss Road, Taddington High Mere
This walk was originally published by
The Manchester Evening News