The Goyt valley & Errwood hall

NO shorts today!!!!!

We got to the Cat & fiddle pub, above Buxton, and it was FREEZING cold! It looks like the end of shorts for this year anyway. Our goal today was Errwood hall, in the Goyt valley. If you click on the title of this entry you can get reams of information, and a few nice pictures. Also, if you search on 'errwood hall' in Google, there's more there.

I bet it was a bleak night up here on the tops, but the mist was just beginning to clear as we booted up. Here you can see the dish of Jodrell bank radio telescope reflecting the morning sun as it breaks through the mist.

It was a surprise to see a light covering of snow, but also very welcome. There were two sets of footprints, and two sets of tyre tracks from earlier risers than us.

That mist was burning off nicely, and by the time I had dropped into the Goyt valley, the sun was caressing us with warm fingers.

Here is Derbyshire bridge. Not very inspiring, or impressive, but as it has its own road sign, I decided it warranted its own picture too.

You can see it brightening significantly now and the colours, albeit mainly brown, are starting to become more vibrant.

There you go - perfection! All the sunshine you can handle, AND a bit of blue sky to boot. We crossed the small river Goyt by a little packhorse bridge, and continued on that path you see in the bracken .

Please go to part two (below)