Gardom's Edge — Attraction in Derbyshire Dales

One of the lowest of the Dark Peaks gritstone edges. Easily accessible from the Robin Hood car park - includes standing stones, iron settlements, high cliffs and views south to Baslow and the White Peak as well as the Chatsworth Moorlands and the high edges beyond Curbar.

Its one of view places in the high peak thats still has grassy paths that haven't been eroded away yet by walkers and climbers. The Edge itself has lovely oak moorland below it, birch and heather at the top amongst archaeology heading back over a few millennia, and terraces where half-completed millstones show evidence of more recent heritage, The sled tracks that used to be used to drag the stones down to the road show that this place has been used for industry probably 2000...

Gardom’s Edge, a gritstone escarpment that overlooks Baslow, is both very beautiful and largely ignored. It’s not particularly high, at 275 feet, and not only are there no National Trust trails that take you through the important sites here (maybe deliberately; maybe not), but the OS doesn’t illustrate any footpath at all. Even from the A621 that runs below, the outcrops are hidden by trees, perhaps explaining why its many rocky routes aren’t more popular with climbers; they flock instead to Birchen Edge, across the plateau...

Nice short little hike up to a breath taking view. Bouldering is some of the best...