In younger days I spent a fair amount of time in the Peak District.
From the A 53 road that runs between Buxton and Leek, if you look east, you can see some limestone hills that are distinctively jagged, at least for the Peak District. These are Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill.
These intrigued me but I had not managed to investigate them properly until the 4th September this year. I was on the way back to Somerset from a funeral in Salford and decided to take the time to climb Chrome Hill and visit the Churnet Valley Railway, just south of Leek.
I could not resist taking the scenic route through Pott Shrigley and past the Cat and Fiddle pub I arrived in the village of Hollinsclough.
I parked in the gap between Chrome Hill and Parkhouse Hill and set off up the ridge of Chrome Hill. This was not a long or hard walk, about half a mile each way but does offer spendid views in all directions. Iwould have liked to try Parkhouse Hill with its steeper ridge and strange conical formations but the Churnet Valley Railway beckoned.
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