Gradbach

Follow the way marked path from the top end of the car park alongside the infant Dane to the tarmac road. Turn left, but not across the footbridge, and walk to the road junction beyond the farm. Go left again and before the road drops to a corner turn right through a gateway to pass to the right of a house.

Cross it and walk diagonally left across the first enclosure, go through a gateway then follow the wall round towards a derelict building. Pass to the right of this building to climb a stile leading to an old drovers track just above.

Go left and follow this track to Panniers Bridge, along the way look to your left at the River Dane and its small weirs.

Cross the Bridge and turn left, the track curves around Cut-Thorn Hill, then as you begin to see farmhouses beneath look out for a path through bracken into a wet area and to a stile which you cross, the stile was broken down when last we went through so look carefully for this path. Carry on through 2 gateways and then follow the wall on your left to a ladder stile leading into a tarmac lane.

As you climb, this gentle ridge offers superb views of the Dane Valley it passes through gateways then a stone step stile. The wall stops at the top but you carry on walking straight on across rough ground heading for a giant of a ladder stile, but crossing a wooden stile in a wall beforehand.

  They call this track the old salt road so I presume they bought salt on the packhorses from Cheshire.

Panniers Bridge is at Three Shires Heads  this is  were the three shires meet Staffordshire Cheshire and of course Derbyshire. Stop awhile and have a break here its a very pretty spot.

Turn left and follow this gated lane past a few farms. After Bennetshitch  take the signed path on the left and follow it down to a road by a house and chapel. Go left and once over the bridge turn right over a stone stile leading into a meadow by the River Dane. follow the riverside to the footbridge and once over go right again to the car park.