Wardlow

(2.4 miles)

Wardlow is a small farming and former lead-mining village strung out along a road which follows the route of the Portway, an ancient Iron Age track which ran from Southern Derbyshire to the great Iron Age fort on Mam Tor. The village layout, with farms spaced out along the through road has probably changed little since Saxon times. The area around is dotted with relics of the local lead-mines, which were numerous and extended into nearby Ravensdale and towards Longstone.