This route largely follows public rights of way shown as dotted green lines on Ordnance Survey Explorer Map 269 - Chesterfield and Alfreton, and Ordnance Survey Outdoor Leisure Map - OL24 - The Peak District, White Peak area.
[1] Near the bus stop is the Village Hall and car park. Start by locating the War Memorial and adjacent Central Stone (A) in the car park. Standing with your back to this, turn right through the car park gates and fork left across the road past Windyfields Road on your right. Follow the road past The Lamb Inn and the Primitive Methodist Chapel (B) on your left. Shortly you will pass the former Hawley Corn Mill on your right . Pass Gallery Lane. If you stayed on the bus from the village you join the route here, turning left from Gallery Lane to continue uphill. The former Old Star Inn (C) is on your right.
[2] Soon a timber signpost on the right indicates the path to Upper Loads.Turn right through the gap and follow the Chesterfield Round Walk through three squeeze stiles onto a lane. Turn right down to the 16th century Red Lead Mill with the brook on your right. Go through two gates and straight on through another gate and finally a squeeze stile. Turn right and as the lane bends to the right to Nether Loads Farm take the enclosed path on the left. Pass through another squeeze stile and bear slightly right towards a waymark post. This is a good vantage point with views down the valley and back up to Holy Moor. Continue in the same direction to another waymark post on the edge of Back Wood,over a small boardwalk, through a squeeze stile and along the right hand field edge.
[3] At the start of Birkinshaw Wood fork left off the track on a path down through the wood. Cross a small bridge and continue on the main path, through a squeeze stile and past a Peak & Northern Footpath Sign.
Alternatively at Point 3 you can shorten the walk by continuing along the track and descending to a minor road. Turn left and almost immediately right over a wall stile and straight on. The village soon becomes clear as you descend via an obvious path to Windyfields Rd opposite the Village Hall.
Turn left and left again after 10 yards (before the gate) over a small timber bridge. Ascend the field edge, over a step stile and continue uphill aiming for the mid-point of the fence at the top (E). Continue over a rail stile leading to an enclosed path and on to the road at Chander Hill. Turn right (no pavements), left at the signed field gate and along the right-hand field edge. The path crosses to the left-hand side of the next field to a step stile.
[4] Bear left to reach a farm track and follow this left to a gate. Pass under the overhead wires by the second pole to a step stile. Bear left across a small field, over a stone slab bridge and across a further short field. Ignore the stile and turn right when you reach the track (Pocknedge Lane).
At point 4 you can again shorten the route by continuing across the track and bearing left down the field. Following the path by the side of a couple of fields brings you to Pocknedge Lane where you turn right.
At Pocknedge Farm there is a restored 17th century cruck barn. Continue along the lane until you reach the main road. At the roadside there is a triangle of land which was the former pinfold, and a seat (G). Cross the road and turn right past the former Hipper Hall and earlier Tithe Barn (H). Continue along the road to arrive back at the Village Hall.