My daughter Sophie regularly asks me to take her to Curbar Edge for a walk on summer evenings. It ticks all the boxes - it's easy to get to, the walks are as long or short as you like, the views great, lots to see and, if you're a child or still act and play like one, plenty to climb and scramble over.
Curbar Edge makes a spectacular backdrop to the village of Calver just along the A623 road from Baslow towards Buxton. The fields rise gently from the River Derwent and climb steeper and steeper until the exposed millstone grit emerges from the ground nearer the top at about 330m above sea level. A strip of exposed gritstone runs along Curbar Edge from the Curbar road and gap until it joins Froggatt Edge about a mile away to the west. This has created a paradise for climbers who are almost always to be found clambering up the many routes along the edge. To climbers Curbar Edge is known as the "Cloggy of the Peak" as there are so many difficult routes amongst the 280 or so recognised routes along its length.
