[1] From the car park cross Hathersage Road by the bus stop and turn right. Go down to the road junction, cross and turn right to a gate and fingerpost. Go through the gate and down to the access road to Longshaw Lodge Visitor Centre turning left along it. Just before the visitor centre turn left and follow a wide track as it bears right behind The Lodge (A) through trees to exit through a gate. Turn right along a wide grassy track and where it forks bear left on the track past the wooden pole (above to the left). This is believed to be the successor to an 18th Century pack horse trail waymarker. Continue up to a triangular road junction and cross straight ahead over two roads (to Froggatt and Calver). Go through a gate ahead and continue on the track to the isolated White Edge Lodge.
[2] Just before the Lodge take a path on the left by a wall and keep left uphill to a gate on the top of White Edge. Go through, turn left then immediately right continuing straight ahead over the moor. Look out for the stump of (B) Lady's Cross on your right. On reaching a road turn right along it. Soon you will see a gate on the opposite side of the road. Cross, go through it and follow the narrow path ahead through the heather across the moor. Take care as a section of this path can be boggy. As you cross the moor you will see the ventilation shafts (C) of Totley Tunnel. Eventually you reach the remains of a wall. Turn right and follow it ahead, passing a trig point to your left, across a track until you reach a large cairn.
[3] Continue ahead downhill following the steep and rocky path which eventually bears left. At a wall turn left along a track as it winds below Brown Edge eventually joining Moss Road. Turn right on to this track, which soon becomes tarmaced, and follow it downhill, passing another ventilation shaft, until it meets Lane Head Road. Turn left along it at the back of the sports ground to a road junction.
[4] Turn left into Strawberry Lee Lane and follow it round until it reaches a small car parking area on the left. Go through a gate ahead and continue along the path into (D) Blacka Moor Nature Reserve, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Follow the path as it starts to climb steeply with a brook down to the left. At a junction keep left and continue up the side of Blacka Hill until you reach and go through a gate in a wall.
[5] At the way markers follow the signs to Longshaw going straight ahead onto a narrow, grassy path uphill bearing to the left side of the hill in front of you. Eventually go over a stile and through a gate , turning right onto a grassy track. Follow this to a road (A625), cross and continue, through a gate, on the path as it winds over the moor to join Hathersage Road (A6187). Turn left for a short distance downhill then cross to enter the car park and the start of the walk.