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Kinder Edges

Kinder Edges
OS Map : 110
Start : Edale Car Park.
 SK125853
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 The large pay car park at the road junction to Edale. This car park does get busy and there is a charge for it's use.
Summary : Edale Car PArk - Grindsbrook - Crowden Tower - Kinder Low - Kinder Downfall - The Edge - Fairbrook Naze - Seal Stones - Blackden Edge - Ringing Rodger - Grindsbrook - Edale Car Park
distance : 27.0km.
ascent : 500m.
time : 8hr. 50min.

Edale

Current Weather

Last Updated today at : 02:02:26

Overall : scattered clouds
Temperature : 15degC.
Wind Speed : 6km/hr.
Wind Direction : ENE
Clouds : scattered clouds
Precipitation : none
Sunrise : 03:40:38
Sunset : 20:39:33
: Times are GMT add 1 hour for BST

Data from openweathermap.org

This is a long walk, one of the longest on this site. Look at the 1:50,000 map of Kinder and the central high plateau is "white". Surround this are steep slopes, the Kinder Edges. This walk takes you all around the edges, around the "white" part of the map. There is a path around most of the way, sometimes well defined and others fainter. A fantastic trip a round the core of the dark peak.

Leave the car park and walk up the road to the village. Once through the village follow Grindsbrook Clough, first through some trees, and then along the flat valley bottom. Just at the end there is a steep and rocky exit from the valley. Climb through here taking the best route to brake out on the Kinder plateau. You have now done most of the climbing for the day. Continue along the south edge, west, past Crowden Tower, Pym Chair, and onto the trig point at Kinder Low. (5.5kms. 400m. 2hrs. 30min.)

The route continues around Kinder clockwise. From Kinder Low follow the Pennine Way to the impressive Kinder Downfall. This is the most amazing of waterfalls from it's frozen state in winter to water falling upwards in strong winds. Continue on along the Pennine Way to reach the northern edge at SK067899. From here leave the Pennine Way and take the smaller path along the Northern edges - The Edge. Follow this to Fairbrook Naze and around, first south to cross Fair Brook itself, and then along Seal Edge to Seal Stones. (9.5kms. 50m. 2hrs. 50min.)

From Seal Stones the path is followed in the same clockwise manner to Blackden Edge. The extreme easterly point of this route is at Crookstone Knoll. Here the route continues south west and then west around the southern edge of Kinder. Th next feature is Ringing Rodger. from here the route can be cut short by descending to Edale, but to complete the circuit the path continues to Nether Tor around Upper Tor and to the top of Grindsbrook Brook. Care is to be taken through the initial rocks of the descent, but once at the valley floor there is a pleasant walk along the valley bottom and back to the car park at Edale. Perhaps, partaking of refreshement on the way to the car. (12kms. 50m. 3hrs. 40min.)