Trub to Hawkshaw
Distance: 16 miles
Ascent: 450m
Weather: damp, cold wind
Goats, sheep and lambs, squirrel, hare, buzzard being harassed by a crow, ducks, geese, heron, coot, goldfinches.
A good night's sleep and a great breakfast, and we were off at about 9am. The weather forecast said rain coming in for the afternoon, but as it was it was mostly drizzle and we just put rucksack covers on and stayed in our windproofs.
We made our way through Castleton and joined the Rochdale Way, passing Crimble Mill (the elves are still slacking) and through the wood along Simpson Clough and Nadon Brook.
At Ashworth Moor Reservoir (it was very windy) we Left the Rochdale Way and followed footpaths a while, one of which seemed to lead straight into a wall with a metal fenced gap, but it was a gate and (with a bit of effort) openable. The going was grassy and mildly squelchy, with lady's smock flowers growing.
We had lunch on a bench at a junction of lanes, and met a chap who was determined to have us help him find a place that wasn't on the map.
Many, many signs have been put up for the Village Link, they really don't want you getting lost in a field, and we followed these for a while then left it when it turned right onto a disused railway and we went straight on. Later we randomly rejoined it as we finished our walk in Hawkshaw.
We saw the steam of a steam train and heard tooting, a fancy farm with a tower that looks like a great place to survive a zombie apocalypse, and I trod in quite a lot of poo
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