Castleshaw Round

Distance: 7 miles
Ascent: 300m
Weather: cloudy
Buzzard, mallards, honky geese, possibly twites, possibly pippets

We set of from the Marsden Moor carpark on Buckstones Road and followed the Pennine Way south. It was claggy and quite windy on Standedge, but we managed to find a sheltered spot behind one of the big rocks for lunch near to the trig point (and away from the horde).

It was much warmer out of the wind down on the Pennine Bridleway, which we followed down to Castleshaw Reservoir where we left the road and walked through a very muddy sheep field a day around the reservoir.

We rejoined the bridleway track and headed up the hill before following the Oldham Way back across the moors to rejoin the path back to the car.