Parking
Minninglow Car Park, Mouldridge Lane (DE4 2PN), beside the High Peak Trail. Start and finish here; the surface is gravel.
Overview
About Roystone Grange Trail
Why go
- Ancient burial sites, farm history and railway engineering in one loop
Heads up
- Four stiles and muddy pasture paths after rain
Map & elevation
The route
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Full mapElevation281–370 m
Plan your hike
Before you go
Parking
Safety
5 active Peak District alerts
- ClosureA54 Cat and Fiddle road closureThe A54 Macclesfield Main Road (Cat and Fiddle) is fully closed to all traffic from 27 July through 30 October 2026 during phase 1 improvement works.Official details
- ClosureHooks Carr (Stanage Popular) car park closureHooks Carr (Stanage Popular) car park will be partially or fully closed from 6 October for four weeks.Official details
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Peak District Tour Guide
Your drive to Roystone Grange Trail, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Peak District National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this trailhead
Minninglow Hill and Its Ancient Tombs0:00 / 0:26
“You're approaching Minninglow Car Park, the start of a three-mile loop that follows an old railway embankment and climbs to ancient tombs beneath two rings of beech trees.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Peak District Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- What the Field Barns Were For
- The Older Fields at Roystone Grange
- The Chuckling Winter Flock
- The Ponds That Shouldn’t Hold Water
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Trail guide
Hiking Roystone Grange Trail
A short White Peak history loopRoystone Grange Trail is a 3.6-mile loop from Minninglow Car Park in the White Peak.
Roystone Grange Trail is a 3.6-mile loop from Minninglow Car Park in the White Peak. It pairs the level gravel High Peak Trail with farm paths around Roystone Grange and a climb to Minninglow's tree-ringed burial ground. Allow about two to two and a half hours if you stop to explore.
Railway, pasture and hilltop tombsAn old railway bed makes for an easy, firm start and finish; the middle crosses limestone…
An old railway bed makes for an easy, firm start and finish; the middle crosses limestone pasture on grass and uneven tracks, with four stiles and several gates. The ascent to Minninglow is short but steep, and fields can be muddy after rain. At the hilltop, mature beeches ring Neolithic chambered tombs and Bronze Age barrows. Roystone Grange adds a Victorian pump house and traces of Roman farming and a medieval monastic grange; view the historic remains from signed paths. Frame a tomb against the beech canopy for the route's distinctive photo.
Starting detailsBegin and end at Minninglow Car Park on Mouldridge Lane, beside the High Peak Trail.
Begin and end at Minninglow Car Park on Mouldridge Lane, beside the High Peak Trail. There are no toilets or refreshments along the route. Dogs are allowed, but keep them on a lead among livestock; follow signed paths and do not enter farm buildings or private archaeological areas.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Peak District
248 sightingsRed DeerMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
36 sightingsRed FoxMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
15 sightingsEurasian OtterMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
51 sightingsPeregrine FalconMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
47 sightingsEuropean Fallow DeerMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
54 sightingsWestern Roe DeerMost seen around 7 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Peak District. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
