Three Shires Head — Attraction in High Peak

This route is a short walk on the edge of the Peak District that takes you to the borders where three English Counties come together at one very picturesque spot, Staffordshire, Cheshire and Derbyshire.

The start point is a small off road lay by on the A54 that can accommodate about seven cars. There is no particular feature to set in your satnav so I used the pub called the Rose and Crown and just continued past it for about a mile to get to the access road.

The first section of the access road is a narrow tarmac road but this soon reduces to a very rough boulder and risk strewn trail. Other than mountain bikes, of which there were many, this would preclude any other firm of wheeled transport. For the same reason boots would be the order of the day and take plenty of fluids if the weather is hot. It's not far along this track before the River Dane comes into view. Keep a watch on your right and you'll find a narrow and steep track leading down to the deep pool, just downstream from the trail head. Just as picturesque and is perfect for a bit of wild swimming, though I was told it was "cool". Plenty of rocks to get out into the river to grab that special photo. Back up to the marked trail and a few hundred yards further on you'll find the bridge and trail head. It's a popular spot, especially in good weather, so if you want to capture the picturesque beauty of the place without being overrun by people you may have to be patient But it's worth the wait!

The marked route is an out-and-back but I chose to continue up the River Dane valley, more stunning views, and work my way back up onto the main A54 road, along one of the few indicated paths. It's not hard to navigate as the road is always clearly visible on the near horizon. Once on the roadway it's a short walk back to your car but you do get the additional advantage of views along the river valley. I will suggest this to AT as an alternative route.

Altogether, one of the best views so far this year, all the better for it being a hot, sunny day. A short but challenging route, highly...

I was astonished and upset when we reach the place. We parked our car at the entrance where it said car park here and there’s no place to turn. There was a sign board.

It took us 35-40 minutes walk to reach the place, our navigation was quiet bad due to network problem. However, we managed to reach there, after the road you will encounter a trail.

When we reach there, it was crowded with a young people and waterfall or it was little less spring water was really low where you will not be able to swam across and you will have to go down further or up ward to find a suitable space. Nevertheless, place is not for swimming. You will find a few spots where you can feel a depth of water but most of it has small depth. Not the ideal place for swim.🏊‍♀️

May be , we were looking for swimming and thats how we felt. We did found a good spot which has a quite a depth from other spots which you have to go above from little bridge.

I will attach pictures as a reference. Hope you will find suitable for...

We parked on clough carpark as another rewiewer had said. With no phone signal or direction we headed the wrong way for a hour. On realising this turned rd and went once again in another wrong direction. By this time the heavens had opened up and my French bulldog was blowing out of its arse, I don't know why as she's usually good on walks. After admitting defeat my partner went to look for the car while my eight year old daughter and I fended for ourselves. We was cold and hungry so started to make camp. A helicopter went over which we were trying to wave to for attention blow are whistle which they couldn't hear. Luckily my partner found us after 35 minutes under a tree with my daughter consolidating me. We never made it that day to see the wonders of the fall. My wife says waking up at 4am and on a whim saying let's go three shires wasn't the best way to approach this. We eventually ended up in Bakewell were are two French bulldogs had fun...