Eyam Moor

It was very, very cold yesterday when we walked from Sir William Hill down to Stoke Ford. We then swung round towards Leam having walked a very muddy path through a plantation which had not so many years ago been an open hillside.

We then climbed back onto the moor with a view to finding Wet Withens using the compass and hopefully following some beaten paths - there were none. So we tried to make it up as we went along but walking through the long heather is not easy and someone went her whole length ...... she was not amused.

It probably wouldn't have been so bad if the wind hadn't have been so strong. Still the sun shone and otherwise it was a lovely day. Before I go out next time to find Wet Withens I shall get its grid reference from one of the websites. Wet Withens is an ancient stone circle which until recently was on private ground - this is now all access land.