If you start up by the glider club, take the path that meanders along the edge behind the clubhouse and on for a mile or so. It's faily level, only minor ups and downs, and is easy to follow. Towards the middle/end of then plateau with stunning views to your right come to a stop near some pine woods on your left and a field gate in front with a kissing gate directly to your left. Go through the kissing gate and take the path through the woods and keep going till you hit a locked stile and horse jumping stile in the fence to your right over looking the top of Nut Batch. Climb/Jump over stile and it's downhill all the way. The path is only sporadically marked, so take a map to be sure. Prob easier going down than up too. Plus, at the bottom, you can take a left hand path along to Minton if I recall correctly. Have a go, it really is beautiful, with a ting babbling brook for company all the way up/down depending on your choice of ascent/decent. It really is the path less followed, you certainly don't see the Cardingmill crowds anywhere near. If you manage to get there, have fun. Other than the brook, it's sooooo quiet.
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