Robin Hood's Stride & Rowtor Rocks: 5 Miles Moderate

Elton - Portway - Bradley Rocks - Rowtor Rocks - Birchover - Hermit's Cave - Cratcliff Tor - Robin Hood's Stride (Mock Beggars Hall) - Harthill Moor - Limestone Way - Elton

Beware! This walk may not be suitable for young children, there are steep unfenced drops on both Rowtor Rocks and Robin Hood's Stride. I would advise everyone to take care!

From Elton go through the church yard and follow the way marked path to a minor road. Turn left down the road and after passing a cottage turn right through a driveway across a field and onto the main road.

Go straight over the road onto another driveway and pick up the path that first crosses a small stream then heads up the hill to a wood. Turn right here keeping the wood on your left. At the end of the wood just past Bradley Rocks turn left down a wide track, bear right passing the vicarage and into Birchover. Access to Rowtor Rocks is through the garden of the Druids Inn.

Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland.

Retrace your steps down the track past the vicarage keep to the right of the wood and follow the track round to the left. Go over a stile and descend to the main road, cross the road and follow the path towards Cratcliff Tor. Go over a stile and follow the path through the wood to the Hermit's Cave. Make your way to the top of Cratcliff Tor.

Follow the path above the woods and onto Robin Hood's Stride. Cross Harthill Moor along the Limestone Way to the entrance of Harthill Moor Farm. Turn right down the lane and left into a wood. Follow the path through the wood to a stile. Bear right over a field to another stile, turn left here and follow the way marked path back to Elton.

Cottages in Elton

Looking towards Robin Hood's Stride

Looking towards Bradley Rocks

Bluebells near Birchover Wood