Walking near Castleton

A few days later we walked towards Castleton along the road, then turned onto the footpath towards Black Tor. This is a very steep climb in places and comes out on the top of the ridge near the Tor itself. We then turned towards Mam Tor following the yellow arrows along the upper path initially.

Having already walked up Mam Tor from the other direction we chose to take the path back down past the farm, to the bottom of the old slippage which finally closed the road in 1979, and into Castleton again.

Much of the route was very like the Camino, including yellow arrows on the marker posts. Unlike the Camino there were as many folk walking towards us as in our direction while we were on the ridge path.

Mam Tor from Castleton

We walked up the hill towards the tor and along the ridge to the gap before turning onto the track running diagonally downhill

Black Tor

Yellow arrows show the way to Mam Tor and back down the way we had come from Castleton

The track along the top of the ridge, we turned down to Casteton at the crossing in the dip