These routes can begin from either the steps leaving the car park or Edale train station, making this a perfect location whatever your mode of transport.
The Old Nags Head Photo:Getty Grindslow Knoll via Ringing Roger walk
Begin this 5.5-mile route walking under the railway bridge past The Rambler Inn to the opposite end of the village.
At the Old Nags Head pub, continue straight down the road, then bear left, and turn right down some steps and across a wooden bridge, go up the steps and turn left on the flagstone path.
After a short distance there’s a footpath bearing right across the grass. Walk uphill to Heardman’s Plantation, go through the gate then follow the switchback path as it ascends towards Ringing Roger (rock formation).
At the large stone cairn turn right and continue uphill, then as you reach the large gritstone rocks you can pick either footpath up to the Kinder Plateau.
Once you’ve reached the top, follow the narrow path to the left, which skirts around the edge of the plateau.
The path bears around to the right you’ll cross over a small stream, then double back on the other side, Grindslow Knoll summit is straight ahead. Walk until you reach another stone cairn, at the top of Grindsbrook Clough footpath.
Take the flagstone path leading off to the right all the way up to the top of Grindslow Knoll, also one of the ‘Ethels’.
Bear right and continue on the path heading down the other side towards a gate. Then head left in a south-easterly direction, descending to a rocky path. This steep path heads around the base Grindslow Knoll until you reach a gate. Go through here, continue downhill on the grassy path to another gate and turn right.
Follow the stream into Edale village, at the Old Nags Head, turn right and follow the same road back to the car park or train station.
Again, begin this 4.5-mile route walking railway bridge and past The Rambler Inn. Walk through the village until you reach the Old Nags Head.
Turn right in front of the pub, follow this over a stone bridge then up steps and through a gate. Stay on this path, through a gate then take the main track towards the farm buildings.
Go through a small metal gate and continue through and out of the farm. Next, you’ll reach a path junction, turn right down the road, continuing over the railway bridge.
At the road, turn right, and cross carefully opposite the gate with the green signpost for ‘Castleton and Hope via Hollins Cross’. Walk down the wide track, go over the bridge then through a small wooden gate.
Keep going uphill, past some farm buildings before you reach stone steps up to a wooden gate. It’s a short grassy (and muddy) footpath uphill until you reach a rocky path. Follow this all the way up to the large stone marker at Hollins Cross.
Next, turn right on the flagstoned path heading uphill. Keep walking on this route, via two gates all the way to Mam Tor summit. Be sure to stop at the trig point before continuing down the other side on the stone path, via some steps.
The path bends around to the left then through a gate to the road. Turn right and follow it around the corner until you reach a gate signposted to Edale. Walk down this path, parallel to the wall. Go through another gate, and downhill via a steep section.
Go through the next gate, walk along the path and through another gate. Then take the next immediate gate on your left and turn right down the track. You’ll go past a farm, which sometimes has an honesty box with snacks.
At the road, turn right, for about 100 metres then left back to the start.
Walk through the village of Edale, past The Rambler Inn, and on to The Old Nags Head pub. Turn left on this eight-mile route, following the ‘Pennine Way’ signpost then left into a field with flagstone path.
Continue through numerous gates, over a small hill, then downhill. Bear right through another two gates then turn left to reach Upper Booth Farm.
Turn right through the farm, then right, over a bridge, and past some houses. Continue through several gates until the Packhorse Bridge.
Begin your steep ascent of Jacob’s Ladder, via steps then continue on rocky footpath, until a wide wooden gate, immediately turn left on the flagstones uphill.
After 900 metres, turn left over a wooden stile. Continue along the flagstones to Brown Knoll trig and beyond for two kilometres until you reach a rocky track.
Turn left to begin your descent, go past the ‘Barber Booth and Edale’ signpost, through a wooden gate. As the path flattens look for a gate on your left, follow this diagonally across the field to the next gate.
Walk downhill on the feint path through the field, through another two gates and over a wooden stile. Follow this footpath parallel to the stream, then over two stiles.
Cross the track and follow the yellow arrow to another gate, bear left along the tree line to a stile at the road. Turn right, then left at the end over the bridge.
Follow the left-hand road fork, then bear left following ‘Edale Station and Grindsbrook’ signpost.
Cross the railway bridge, turn right and follow the track over the fields through five small gates. At the fingerpost, turn right for ‘Edale Station’, then turn right through two gates and back over the railway.
Follow the ‘Edale Station’ signs, through a gate then go left and turn right onto the wide path. Walk past the station and cafe to reach the railway bridge at the start.
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