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Starter Walk Ladybower Upper Derwent Valley, Fairholmes, Lockerbrook and Crook Hill from Ashopton Viaduct

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Updated version of this walk is available at  GoPeakWalking.co.uk

Walk Wyming Brook, Redmires, Rivelin, Fox Holes and Lodge Moor from Soughey Lane

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Walk Seal Stones from Birchen Clough via Fair Brook, Kinder and Seal Edge

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A moderate walk with one quite strenuous climb, mild scrambling in places, and a short section of very steep descent 6.3 Miles (10.18km) Total Climb: 313.6m / 1028.8ft Time: 3hrs Time loosely based on Naismiths Rule and will vary dependant on the walker. View and print this walking route on the Ordnance Survey Getamap website Kinder is probably THE iconic peak of the Peak District - despite its flat and sometimes arduous plateau and despite its lack of drama compared to other "Peak peaks" such as Shuttlingsloe or even Win Hill Pike. Jacobs ladder springs to mind as a well known route but my favourite access to the peat of Kinder is via Fair Brook. Making its way down as a series of slow trickles converging from the top of Kinder, Fair Brook begins to stream steadily over the rocks and boulders at the top of the valley, joined on its way down by a couple more tributary streams from Black Ashop Moor and Seal Edge, increasing in volume all the way down, to e...