Rivers were followed, pubs visited, mountains staggered over and county boundaries crossed. I left Yorkshire through Woodhead Pass into Derbyshire. Oh I am so so so pleased I decided to do this walk from East to West as I was going downhill for the really steep bits. I don't think my backpack and I would ever have made it up. I spoke to a cyclist who told me they prefer up as going down having to break all the way or carrying your bike is very difficult.
I stayed in Hadfield, also known as Royston Vasey as this is where they shot League of Gentlemen (which I have never seen but had to pretend I knew all about it). It has a sign saying You will never leave. When I got to the station I saw that you really could never leave as it's single track and there a buffers at the end which seemed odd and it was not the last station on the line. They must shunt a lot. I went to Glossop, off the trail but I was interested to see this little market town - very uninteresting and not as pretty as its name.
I then walked to Broadbottom and got lost. Now in Cheshire and being stared at by nasty scarecrows outside every building, I walked towards Stockport and got lost again - twice in one day. I turned round and I found my destination, Haughton Green, through a lovely wood by a river and canal and over a bridge and up beside a church that looked like a tudor house. The hotel was no great shakes but it did look quite pretty. My walk was long and I slept well.
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