Walk Leader
John Rutherford
Capacity
10
We will walk slowly through Bolehill Quarry, with plenty of stops for unhurried photography. The Quarry has been disused for about a century, the National Trust taking it over in 1954. For around 600 years, until the late 19th century, the quarry produced millstones for flour grinding and industry. This ceased due to cheaper imports from France. It was a very abrupt cessation, evidenced by the large number of millstones still lying around, often neatly stacked. The quarry had a brief resurgence from 1901 due to a demand for stone to build dams for the nearby Howden and Derwent reservoirs. When these projects ended the quarry shut down again, this time to be taken over by nature.
With the quarry remains, the left-behind millstones, silver birches growing on former quarry land and the gnarly old trees in nearby ancient woodland, Bolehill is a wonderful place for photographers.
Walk Location
53.317133763968, -1.623101234436
Walk Directions
We will meet in the Surprise View car park on the A6187 near Hathersage, Derbyshire. The psotcode, S32 2JA, will get you very close to the park and you shouldn't have any difficulty in spotting it.
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The car park is pay and display, card only, and will cost £4.75 for a full day.
Accessibility
The quarry is a short walk from the car park. Most of the paths in the quarry are well-trodden and even. We will use the best path to enter and leave the quarry, which is short, fairly steep and uneven.. It requires care and concentration.
There are no toilets on the walk, but plenty of secluded spots.
There are no cafes, so please bring your own drinks and packed lunch.
There is no shelter so, if there is bad weather, the walk will need to be cancelled or re-scheduled. I will aim to give you at least 24 hours notice of this.
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