Check
out some of the lanes and quarries around Matlock.
Map : Ordnance Survey Explorer OL24 - White Peak Area map.
Click to enlarge the pictures... Grid Refs hopefully correct but it's gone
midnight and I'm tired :)


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This lane is quite a find. It runs
from the top of Salters Lane above Matlock (GR SK270594) to over near
Grangemill (GR SK253578). It passes by a Quarry with a lot of scope
for trailing and some scrambling.
The Quarry is at the location marked by the RED
circle.
Further on is a very obvious motocross track (Marked above on the map by the
BLUE circle). According to a farmer who lives
nearby it costs about £7 for a day to use the track. I made a few slow
circuits and it definately would be a good laugh with a few mates. As I was
on my own I took it steady and then went on along the lane towards Grangemill.
Coming back - I had been told to
head down into Bonsall by a couple of chaps I met in the Quarry - Peter (the
farmer from nearby Cottage or Brightgate farm) and his mate Matthew - from
Crich. They had off-road bikes - A Honda and DRZ. The Green Line on the map
shows this track.
I have put this one on as is simply because the Quarry and the Track mean
you could spend a good few hours minging about before carrying on elsewhere.

