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Parking

Parking can easily be found in the public cark park at Miller's Dale, however this is pay and display.  £2 for 4 hours £4 for all day. 

Directions

Take the A6 from Ashford In The Water toward Buxton. Turn right off the A6 and take the B6049 down toward Miller's Dale.  Just before Miller's Dale turn left up toward Wormhill.  Immediately after turning left take the next left into the car park.

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Chee Dale is a place I had never walked until today.  This Dale has to be one of the best in the area, and well worth a visit.  As you walk through the dale you can easily forget that you are in the peak district, with the fantastic meandering river complete with distant views and the high cliffs all around the valley.

Be prepared for the mud at this time of year and after heavy rain the last part of this dale will be impassable as the water will be well above the stepping stones which creep around the last bend.  

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WALK PHOTOS

Walk Directions

Leg 1

Miller's Dale Car Park to Chee Dale End

From the car park walk out of the opposite end from which you drove in.  Walk down the track past the old kilns on the right and continue down to the viaduct.  Here turn right and head down the steps to the river (don't cross the viaduct).  Turn right at the river and walk up the valley keeping the river on your left.  You will soon reach a cross road of paths where there is a bridge.  Don't cross the bridge, carry straight on keeping the river on your left.

Follow the twisting river up the valley for about 0.5km enjoying the magnificent views.  You will eventually come to some stepping stones which hopefully will not be under water (If they are you have an option, swim or go back)! Continue over these stones and  you will soon come to a bridge below a viaduct.  Cross this bridge to the opposite side of the river and walk a few yards to where the path comes to a junction.  Here you will now leave the base of the valley. Take the path which leads away from the river up onto the top of the viaduct.

 

Leg 2

Chee Dale End to Blackwell Farm

You are now standing on Monsal Trail which was a fine railway in its day but now only used as a foot path. Walk over the viaduct and through the short tunnel.  Continue through a second tunnel and continue onward.  Just after this second tunnel you will be able to see a section where the old rail way used to split. One way went into Great Rocks Dale and the other into Wye Dale.  Continue on your current heading toward Wye Dale.  You will shortly pass through a short section where the path narrows and rocks faces are close on both sides.  This must have been where the rocks were blasted when building the original railway.  Here there is a junction of paths, take the one on the left which heads up over a stile and climbs toward the A6.  Walk toward the A6 but after a few yards turn left and climb steeply uphill toward Blackwell Farm.  At the top of the hill follow a wall keeping this on your right.  Shortly you will come to a point where there is a public footpath sign pointing into a field.  Climb this stile and walk over to another stile (100 degrees from North).  Climb this stile and head across the next field to a gate in the opposite right hand corner.  Here you will see a track, walk up this and follow it until you come to a small road.  Turn left onto the road and walk past the campsite and toward the farm.

 

Leg 3

Blackwell Farm to Miller's Dale Car Park

Continue down the road and past a phone box on the left.  Just after this you will see a path on the left.  Take this and walk through the farm keeping the wall on your right.  You will soon see a stile your right, climb this and head over the field veering slightly left toward Blackwell Hall.  Climb the next two stiles and walk into the farmyard.  Turn right and walk toward a track, the farm should be on your left and a house on the right.  Walk down this lane until it bends to the right over a stile next to a gate and then left  into an open field.  Walk down this field keeping a wall on your left, and eventually you will come to a stile.  Climb this and head across in the same direction as you were walking  toward the 'old settlement'.  After passing the settlement (which is now only a few remains   and could be mistaken for a wall) head downward to the right toward the bottom of the valley.  Before reaching the bottom turn right toward a gate.  Pass through this gate and walk up toward the viaduct.  Turn left and walk over the viaduct back toward the car park.