Walks from Buxton
MapBeautiful walks starting or ending at Buxton Station.
Alternatively, view walks you can reach directly from Buxton by train.
Buxton Circular via King Sterndale
Mostly field tracks with a steep descent and several stiles. Passes the regally-sounding village of King Sterndale.
Time: 3h30
Warnings: Steep downhill section to the railway line and several stiles.
Walk details: Buxton Town Team (PDF).
Buxton Circular via Combs Moss
Quiet moorland plateau, gritstone scarps, green valleys, reservoirs and hillfort promontory.
Time: 4h30
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Buxton Circular via Burbage Edge trig point
Wonderful views over Buxton from Burbage Edge. Mostly field tracks, boggy in places and with uphill sections and three stiles. Walk can be made shorter by turning back along Macclesfield Old Road. Extensive woodland.
Time: 3h
Warnings: Can be boggy in places.
Walk details: Buxton Town Team (PDF).
Buxton Circular via Monsal Dale
Limestone gorges, stepping stones, overhanging rockfaces, dismantled railway line, limekilns, high pastures, dry valleys and quiet villages.
Time: 7h30
Warnings: Paths flood after rain.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Buxton Circular via the Dragon's Back
Limestone uplands, remote valleys, dramatic reef knoll ridges, dry valleys, disused quarries and open moorland.
Time: 7h
Warnings: Steep scrambling sections.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Buxton Circular via Three Shires Head
Open upland moor, broad grassy and gravel paths, boggy moorland sections with groughs and peat hags, scenic river valleys, disused quarries, pastures and long far views.
Time: 7h
Warnings: Can be boggy.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Buxton to Macclesfield
Spectacular views. Wild landscape of deep valleys and gritstone peaks and studded with peat bogs and pine forests. Buxton developed as a fashionable spa in 18th-19th centuries using profits from Dukes of Devonshire's copper mines. Macclesfield granted borough charter for market in 13th Century. Extensive woodland.
Warnings: Stiles; busy road with no pavement and fast traffic.
Walk details: the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Similar walk: Walk Midlands (inc. GPX).
Whaley Bridge to Buxton
Great views across the Goyt Valley. An almost entirely road-, lane- and track-based route between two towns, with a long steady climb out of Whaley Bridge along a quiet tarmac lane. Good open views across the Goyt Valley. Some rocky, rubbly track sections and a flight of steps. Trains between the two stations are regular and take under 20 minutes. No mid-route facilities, so bring food.
Lunch: No mid-route facilities; bring your own food.
Warnings: A short section joins the A-road at Long Hill where there is no pavement, so you walk on the verge of a 50mph road. Some rough rocky tracks.
Walk details: Slow Ways.
Buxton to Chapel-en-le-Frith
Moorland plateau, gritstone scarps and descent via Castle Naze causeway to valley station.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: A shorter variant of Buxton Circular via Combs Moss – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).
Chapel-en-le-Frith to Buxton
Moorland plateau ascent from valley station, gritstone scarps, green valleys and hillfort promontory.
Warnings: Can be muddy.
Source: An alternative variant of Buxton Circular via Combs Moss – the Saturday Walkers Club (tips, local insights and turn-by-turn directions).