Distance: 642m
Ascent: 60m
Descent: 0m
Walk along Hurst Road, past Glossop & District Golf Club and onto Derbyshire Level.
The Royal Oak alehouse was built by Joshua Shepley who gained the first alehouse licence in 1818 the same year an act was passed to build a turnpike road from Glossop to Sheffield over the Snake. A turnpike being a road on which tolls or fees were collected for using it.
Distance: 679m
Ascent: 20m
Descent: 20m
From the Royal Oak walk along Pyegrove for only 155m and then through the woodland in a northerly direction until you reach the gate at the top of the hill. Follow the path down torwards the footbridge over the brook and then left towards Shepley Street.
The Royal Oak alehouse was built by Joshua Shepley who gained the first alehouse licence in 1818 the same year an act was passed to build a turnpike road from Glossop to Sheffield over the Snake. A turnpike being a road on which tolls or fees were collected for using it.
