[1]. Starting with your back to the hotel entrance of The Peveril of the Peak fork left across the car park to reach a stone wall stile signed 'Footpath to Dovedale '. Cross the stile and turn left keeping the hotel boundary wall on your left. Shortly you may notice a stone squeezer stile, without a sign post, but ignore this ( it 's where you will return) and continue until you reach a broad track with a fine view of Thorpe Cloud ahead. Turn left down the track, proceed through a wicket gate by a field gate, and pass to the left of the public toilets to reach a tarmac road.
[2]. Cross the road and keep ahead down tarmaced Digmire Lane. Where the road bends to the left, before The Manor House, take the stone squeezer stile to your right. This is blue way marked & #39;Easy Access Pathway ' on the adjacent telegraph pole. Keep straight ahead through a series of wicket gates, crossing a small access road, and fields until you reach a bungalow ' Glebelands ' to your left. With Glebelands on your left pass through a metal field gate, keep ahead across a large field. After a short descent take the wicket gate in the middle of the stone wall, and continue ahead with a steep descent to reach the metal sign post and tarmac road. Turn left adjacent to the cattle grid with Thorpe Mill Farm on your right. Keep ahead.
[3]. Shortly on your left you will see a sign posted stone squeezer stile. Take this and keep ahead across a small field and over a step stile. Keep ahead using the narrow single track, not the broad obvious route. If muddy use the concrete slab to cross the gulley until the river on your right is reached. Keep ahead through a wicket gate, with the river on your right, and follow the broad route until the solid buttresses of single arched stone Coldwall Bridge is reached. Cross the step stile and turn right to admire the views from the bridge.
[4]. Retrace those last few steps and go ahead towards way marked 'Limestone Way'. Ignore the sign post to your right. Shortly you may observe an old metal milestone post showing 'Cheadle 11 miles' on you right. Keep ahead up the broad track.
[5]. Fork left as you reach the top of the hill by a wooden sign post which points you to a short uphill stretch and a stone squeezer. Keep ahead until the road is reached.
[6]. At this minor road Ivy Cottage is behind you with an old grinding stone used for the house name sign. Turn left and keep ahead passsing by the multi-chimneyed 'The Old Rectory' on your right, before reaching the church also on your right.
[7]. After visiting the church continue your earlier direction and turn right to a tarmac road leading down from Thorpe Village Hall. Fork left as you approach the road passing by 'Green Croft' and 'The Barn' on your left You should be following the direction of the large metal sign post to 'Dovedale/Ilam and parking'.
[8]. It is recommended you cross the road before the pavement ends so you face the oncoming traffic for the short distance before you turn right through a wicket gate, by a sign post, to reach 'Jasmine Cottage' with grinding wheel/stone troughs/ bird drinking bowl etc. Keep ahead through a stone squeezer, up a few stone steps, to reach a wicket gate. Passing through this fork to the left across the field with the hotel visible to your right. Keep to the left of a lone house to reach the stone squeezer mentioned in [1]. Passing through this turn right and return to your starting point, the stone stile on your right returning you to the hotel car park.