Hope Shaft - Middleton Dale

[jasonbirder]

Anyone have any good directions to finsing Hope Shaft in Middleton Dale...
I know its on the opposite side of the valley to Nickergrove and I have the grid ref...but i've had problems finding things in that area before (because i'm dozy)
Thanks in advance!

 

[Big Jim]

Jase, it took me n some mates ages to find it a year or so back and when we did we werent impressed.  Wouldnt bother going back.

Jim

 

[Piglet]

Hi Jason.  If you think of the hill that lies between the road going up past Eyam Dale Shaft to Eyam and the valley to the Delph, it's not far below the top of the crag on the face looking straight across the A623 to the quarry, but on the uphill, Delph valley end.  It's quite a big rift and there are P bolts in plain view - that's the main giveaway that you've found the right place.

As Jim says, it does take some finding and it's not the best trip in the Peak, but still probably worth doing.  Look out for the hanging death on the upper pitch.  Also the exit hole is wriggly, particularly if you're lieing on a boulder like I was and it keeps rolling you back down into the hole again!!!  Have fun! 

 

[paul]

Jase, it took me n some mates ages to find it a year or so back and when we did we werent impressed.  Wouldnt bother going back.

Jim

Better than those Welsh grit bins, though!    

 

[Big Jim]

That was an easy mistake to make. As was the stuck up a tree incident and everything else stoopid Ive done under the influence of cider :icon_321:

 

[Pipster]

Thanks for the pointers Jim and Karen We found it quite easily/quickly in the end; although I think it was just luck!

Jase, it took me n some mates ages to find it a year or so back and when we did we werent impressed.  Wouldnt bother going back.

As Jim says, it does take some finding and it's not the best trip in the Peak, but still probably worth doing.  Look out for the hanging death on the upper pitch.  Also the exit hole is wriggly, particularly if you're lieing on a boulder like I was and it keeps rolling you back down into the hole again!!!  Have fun! 

Agree, not the best trip in the world, but I quite enjoyed it! I'd describe it as "short but sweet". There were a couple of places in the adit with some hanging death above but I think it was the spiders that put most people off!