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Gain (+/- 10%): 348m (1143ft)
Total (+/- 10%): 739m (2424ft)
Loss (+/- 10%): 390m (1281ft)
Max. Elevation: 420m (1377ft)
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Start of the walk
Follow the track to the public car park.
Take the path heading northwards, then turn left shortly after crossing Limb Brook. taking the path through this popular woodland.
Just before leaving the woods, take the left hand path into the field.
Look carefully on your map here as a number of paths cross at this point.
The Norfolk Arms pub offers refreshment for those in need.
Turn left off the road along the footpath.
After walking across the open fields you will reach a lane. Turn left and then left again after crossing the stream.
On reaching the road, turn right. After a short distance the road spilts into 3, a footpath heads roughly westerly from here across the fields, heralding the boundary of the National Park.
From this vantage point, the moor starts to open up before you, with views of the city behind.
Take care of speedy drivers. Cross over to the wide track on the other side of the road and take this along the edge of Lady Canning's Plantation.
Turn right, heading across Burbage Moor.
Turn right here, heading back easterly.
Take care here. You'll need to cross the road and walk along it for about 400m or so.
Turn right off the road onto the path, keeping left at the first fork after about 150m.
Keep left here, following the course of the stream.
Exit the woods onto Shorts Lane and head along it in a vagulely Easterly, then NE direction. At the end turn right and then keep straight on into Townhead.
Turn up the lane here, heading nothwards.
Head up this road.
Take the lane on the right here for a worthwhile extra little distance via the woods, or carry straight on up the road back to the campsite.
Turn left here on the obvious track back to the campsite.
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