We walked between South Head and Mount Pleasant, outnumbered by mountain bikers. Most of them young men in Lycra, though there were one or two young women too, I noticed.

As we left the National Trust owned South Head we entered privately owned farmland.

A small herd of cattle straddled the track we were following ...

There was even a spotted cow ! Which reminds me ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5TjtiYGbZc

The Pennine Bridleway was now losing height as walked back towards Hayfield.

We made sure to stand to one side as some of the mountain bikers came up the hill.

I was impressed, the valley was a long way below and most of them were still pedalling ...

... and gasping for breath too.

We enjoyed sitting on a seat a little later before moving along into the lusher Sett valley ...

The stone houses blend so well into the countryside around here, as you can see in this view of the Kinder plateau with Stones House in the foreground ...

The Bridleway got narrower and with horses, mountain bikes as well as walkers using it, I hope users take note of this sign ...

We reached Hayfield, following the Pennine Bridleway signs through the village ...

We love the view of the houses backing onto the River Sett ...

We reached the car park where the Sett Valley Trail starts. Next time we'd be walking below Lantern Pike ... but that's another day.

On Saturday, I took my 15th walk on the Pennine Bridleway and do you know how far I am from the starting point at Middleton Top ?

36 miles ...

Slow progress.

We parked at the Bowden Bridge Quarry car park, right beneath the plaque commemorating the Mass Trespass that took place in 1932 ...

By now you will have gathered I have a fascination for memorial seats. By the River Sett two more caught my eye ...

The scenery in this area is really special to me ... the sound of the River Sett, the lush greens ... it's magical ...

As we climbed the views were still marvellous. Below you can see Tunstead Clough Farm across the valley ...

Shortly afterwards we had our first view of Mount Famine again ... this is the highest piece of ground in the middle of the photo below.

As we climbed up Coldwell Clough the gable end of a farm building reared up above us, complete with circular owl-hole ~ you may need to look at this on Flickr to see it clearly ...

Just beyond this on the end of the roof of the farmhouse itself was a stone animal, though I'm not quite sure what it's supposed to be ...

We continued to rise up towards higher ground before taking a ninety degree right hand turn and heading south towards the access land. We crossed a couple of streams picking our way across the stepping stones ...

There are some lovely placenames hereabouts according to the Ordnance Survey Map ~ Dimpus Clough for example. I assume 'Dimpus' was the name of a person in the same way as I assume 'Roych' was when we passed through Roych Clough the last time we were on the Pennine Bridleway. This would mean that these placenames are likely to be really ancient ... I wonder what this area would have been like a thousand years ago ... and the people who lived here.

At last we climbed back onto the Pennine Bridleway at the point we had left it ... and enjoyed the view of Mount Famine once again.

Perhaps we'll come back to the walk in a few days time.

... and yet they still want to give the money back.

Here's that pocket Venus, Hazel Blears, showing us just how sincere she is ...

[THINKS: I should have entitled this 'Look ...']

Click here :~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91xiF4LcxII