Shining Tor to Flash Village

This walk was done on 17 June 2011
Distance: 15.3 very approx.
Time 5.15 hours
Weather: Overcast


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If you click on the link you can see more details. I walked it in an Clockwise direction.As you can see the recorded track is broken again, more on this later.

Today's rambling started at the Cat and Fiddle Inn the second highest pub in England. Heading generally north up to the summit of Shining Tor the highest point in Cheshire at 559 metres. The path up to the top looked like the navvies had spent to much time in the cat and fiddle.

Straight wall builders 1, Straight path builders 0 

  While walking back down to head towards Goyt's Moss the far hill side has been visited by alien crop circle makers who again had spent to much time in the Cat.

Don't know why or what

While walking down to Goytsclough Quarry I came across these signs.

And this evidence that the signs are pissing in the wind.

 
I dont mind mind mountains bikes hitting the moors at all, I'm all for everyone getting out and enjoying it. I do understand why some authorities try to stop it. Individually a bike does cause more damage that a walker,  The damage created by walkers is because of the numbers. A foot step on a down hill bit of peat moor does little more than leave a light impression, but a bike breaking/skidding down the same path rips it up, see picture.
As I said I have nothing again MB's but I do understand that if/when there are as many riders as walkers on some of these paths it will need management.
While walking down I could see Errwood reservoir which supplies Stockport of it's drinking water. If your in Stockport you had best start saving the bath water.

Once down through the small wood I had a wander around Goytsclough Quarry.

Interesting for 2 minutes sort of

The directions I was following for this part of the walk said to cross the bridge, It was a vague guide at best. I found this lovely looking aged bridge and crossed over. By the looks of it, it is a Packhorse bridge

 

 I had to head up the valley but the path was non existent which I found a bit off as the walk had been along good paths so far. After a few hundred metres up the stream bed I came across this bridge which must have been the one I was suppose to cross as the paths were good to it.

However I still preferred my old built bridge over this more modern metal and wood effort.

I climbed out of the valley and up onto Axe Edge moor where I stopped to have a bite to eat. I had a visitor for my meal.

As you can see I'm no Steve Young.

Once across Axe edge moor I broke from the guide I was semi following as I wanted to head to Flash Village Which is the highest village in Britain. I had a good look around, I did visit the church with some very old headstones in it. What I found odd was that even in the early 1700's people were living till 60+ and one was 92. There were some a good number of children as well. I would imagine that it would be well to do families that could afford a big headstone so they would live longer than the underprivileged bog worker. I did not take any picture of the church as they were setting up for what I thought was a funeral with flowers all over the place and I thought that might be in poor taste. On the way out I saw a sign for the flash flower festival so I could have. I also did not take a picture of the Wesleyan chapel built in the 1700's However I did take a picture of this

I now headed for Three shire head. On my way there I passed

I was looking forward to seeing them but I saw nothing until I climbed out of the valley and stopped for another lunch break. Looking back across the valley I saw them

And yes they do look like sheep from this distance but if they were sheep they were bloody big sheep.

I got up to Three Shire Head I got a little wet while wandering around taking my pictures as it was the only substantial rain all day.

 

In reviewing these photos I now realise I did not get both bridges fully in any picture. Photo fail number two of the day.
From here it was a walk out up to Danebower Hollow. On the way up I came across a lone chimney not doing much at all

I checked on the map and there was a quarry across the valley

I dont know if it was for some winding gear or if it was a airshaft for some underground mine but it took a bit off effort to build  so it must have served a use once.
Crossing over Whetstone Ridge I spied The Cat & Fiddle Inn. And breathed the sign of relief I always do when I see my car is still where I left it.

Needless to say I had built up a thirst so I had to partake in a small one.

Todays walk was a good one,the weather was clouded up all day and I'm suprised of some of the colours in the picture as all I remember is overcast grey.
I had planned to do this while walking along Ramshaw rocks earlier in the week as I had not been to Flash for years.I think I have now covered most of this area this week.

Now into Rant mode
I use My tracks App. on my phone to record the walk, which worked fine until it updated last week. Now as you can see from today's and from Mondays walk it's missing parts of the walk. I know it's not a lost GPS signal because it's happened on top of some bare arsed moors.
When I got home I was going to look up another app or to see if I could roll this back to the previous version. However I noticed there was an update for this version which had a load of bug fixes in it.
So I updated and will give it one more chance.

Sorry if it's not much of a Rant todaybut I had a good day and really not upto a good one plus I got to save my strenght for the night shift I'm on tonight. I'll sleep well tomorrow.