Wormhill, Monk's Dale and Chee Dale - Day Walk

This is really two walks rolled into one, and so offers an easy under 5 mile option where you can decide to disappear after lunch, however I think it is worthwhile going the full distance of 10.5 miles to see Chee Dale in the afternoon.

Morning Walk - Wormhill & Monk's Dale (4 & 3/4 miles)

From the Monsal Trail at the foot of Chee Dale, the walk climbs to the pretty hamlet of Wormhill, passing its attractive manor and small church.  After following an old lane across the fields the route returns through the delightful National Nature Reserve of Monk's Dale.

Afternoon Walk - Chee Dale (5 & 1/4 miles)

The River Wye's passage through the limestone gorges of the Peak is forever twisting, but nowhere is it more contorted than in the short, dramatic section above Miller's Dale known as Chee Dale.  This secluded chasm is particularly beautiful and so constricted that, at one point, the river completely fills the narrow ravine and the path resorts to stepping stones.  The walk returns across the upland fields and an old trackway ignored by the modern road network.  The path through Chee Dale is occasionally flooded, if that happens we'll take a leisurely walk along the Monsall Trail instead. 

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