Walking Route - Hope Circuit, Peak District

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New OUTDOORSmagic Routes System On The Site Now! Distance A mouse click away! Approx time Just seconds. Difficulty Idiot proof Description Map your own routes and either share them or store them, check out other OMers' routes complete with GPS data and a real Ordnance Survey map.

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We're still going to be running a new walking or scrambling route every week on OM, but from now on, the route will go straight into our new Routes System.

That means that not only can you get the usual detailed route description and photos, but you can also see the route on a real Ordnance Survey map generated with our partners at Anquet, plus you can download a GPS file in either Anquet or universal GPX format.

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This Week's Route: Hope And Castleton Circular

Looking back from Mam Tor - Jon Doran

Hope And Castleton Circular - Peak District

Average Time: 4 hours 30 minutes

Distance: 8.6 miles (13.9 Km)	Height Gain: 1810 ft (553 m)
A popular circular route along the boundary of the Dark and White Peak. The route can be taken in either direction, though tackling it clockwise has the advantage of gaining height further into the walk.	Strenuousness: 2 Technical Grade: 1 Photogenic Grade: 3

This week's route is a classic Peak District circuit starting and finishing in Hope and traversing the Mam Tor ridge after climbing up Cavedale from Castelton. Because the route lies right on the border between the gritstone of the Dark Peak and the limestone of the White Peak, you get to experience both types of rock in one manageable day.

There are also excellent views, particularly looking across towards Kinder Scout as it towers above Edale on the other side of the valley. See route

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The OM Routes System

Our new routes system lets you map your favourite walks, runs, scrambles or rides, creates an OS map of the route and GPS data files and gives you the choice of saving the route for your own personal use or sharing it with other OM members. Go and have a play, it's dead good :-)