Redmires Reservoir Walk and Route Maps

A gentle, mostly level circuit around the Redmires Reservoirs, with water beside you for almost the whole way.

It follows the Upper, Lower and Middle reservoirs in turn, three Victorian reservoirs built between 1833 and 1854 to bring clean drinking water to Sheffield after the cholera outbreak of 1832.

The walk begins on the old Long Causeway packhorse route and crosses Fairthorn Clough before reaching the Upper Reservoir. Further on it meets Wyming Brook, which tumbles down from the moor, and passes Redmires Plantation beside the water. Look out for the old intakes and conduits around the water's edge.

There is only a little climbing and it is a short, relaxed walk, with open moorland views throughout.

A higher, more exposed route that climbs from the Redmires Reservoirs onto the moor and along the famous gritstone of Stanage Edge. The walk begins with a steady, fairly steep pull up beside Fairthorn Clough to Stanedge Pole, an old boundary marker on the medieval Long Causeway packhorse route.

From there you reach Stanage and follow the edge past the crag sections of Enclosure Buttress and Broken Buttress. Stanage is one of England's best-known climbing crags, with wide views over the moors, and you may see climbers at work on the rock.

The return crosses open moor and passes the plantations of Oaking Clough and Broadshaw, before finishing beside the Upper Reservoir, where you can join the first route to explore the reservoirs if you wish.

Expect a sustained early climb, rough ground in places and exposure to the weather on the tops.