Walk 2 - Another side of The Chevin

This offers a different view of The Chevin starting from the car parking area below Firestone Hill which is on the left hand side of the road past the Bluebell Inn in Farnah Green.

From the car parking area and with Firestone Hill behind you walk a little way left and then take the lane on the right.  At the cross roads with the church ahead of you turn left.  Just past houses look for a gate to a footpath on the right hand side.  Follow the hard path, through another gate and then follow the field edge on the right hand side. 

As the path descends, cross a lane and continue with the hedge on your right hand side.  Then watch for the footpath heading away from the hedge and across the narrow part of the field to then follow the hedge on the left hand side as the field widens. At the bottom of the field go through the hedge, turn left and go through two stiles to follow a green lane through a copse and gently uphill.  Look for a further path entering from the right in the corner of the field, go over stile and follow the stone drive past houses to the road. 

At the road turn right and then almost immediately left, down the hill.  When the road starts to rise again and just past Hazelwood Hall Farm take a track on the right with a ‘no cycling’ sign.  Follow this track through gates and past houses until you come to a gate/dry stone wall and a copse of trees. Through the gate turn left and walk steeply uphill passing tracks on the left and right which access The Chevin golf course.  

As the path eventually flattens out go through a squeeze stile and turn left onto The Chevin. Follow The Chevin past the firing range.  As the patch starts to descend look for a broad rocky track on the left hand side.  As this track climbs over tree roots the path narrows as you follow the wall on the right hand side.  Go past a covered reservoir and then take the narrow path on the right with steep banks each side back to the parking area. 

The crater here is reputedly the landing place for one of the few bombs dropped near Belper during the Second World War.