Recommended map: The Peak District White Peak Area 1:25000, Outdoor Leisure 24

A slightly devious but excellent circuit that avoids many of the weekend crowds. Park at Calver crossroads SK237748, there's a small one-way connecting road between the B6001 and the A623 that is often used for parking. Turn right onto the A623 and walk towards Stoney Middleton. After about 200m cross the road to what is often a river/lane then immediately right to cross the playing fields. Keep on this side of the road to the Moon Inn at Stoney, then cross the road into the old village. Walk for 100m then turn left at the junction, follow this up past some new flats and continue uphill past the Reading Room then right to where the road levels and becomes a track. Follow this to Eyam village. Walk left through the village, past the church to a wide road on the left leading into a housing estate. At the T junction follow a footpath straight ahead between houses, crossing roads until a field is reached, cross this to a stile and narrow path between cottages. This path crosses fields with numerous stiles, a shallow valley called Linen Dale and ends up on the road to Foolow. Walk into Foolow, past the pub and continue in the same direction out of the village for 200m to a style on the right. Cross this and fields to a lane leading to Great Hucklow. The village can be confusing as it is in two parts, walk through both of them ignoring a road on the right leading to Hucklow edge and The Barrel. Once out of the second half of the village there is a lane on the right, take this and after a 100m or so there is a style on the right leading up through woodland. Follow this to a small road at the top of a wood on Hucklow Edge. Follow the road for 2km and 500m after the Barrel Inn take lane on the left that leads towards Bretton Clough. Keeping to the road would offer a short cut back to Eyam. Follow the lane and well defined path over several stiles, through a wood and where it turns sharp left over a stile, follow the descending path for 400m almost to the enclosing wall. Here, double back right on a small but well defined track towards a rockyl escarpment on Eyam Moor. After the high point by a small post and cairn the ancient chimney of Ladywash mine will soon become visible. After another 500m, cross a rough lane and the stile opposite and continue over fields past the mine to a small road. Turn left then shortly right at a sign post, cross fields past a wood and drop steeply down by a wall then steps to a road. Cross this to a stile then trend left across the fields to a lane which emerges by the Miner's Arms. Cross the road and head for Stoney Middleton but this time ignore the track on the left that you first came up an go straight on via The Boundary stone. From Stoney retrace your steps. Allow 4.5 hours walking time

Particular interest: Eyam village, Great Hucklow, Hucklow Edge, Eyam Moor.