The Limestone Way is a 46 mile trail through the Peak District from Castleton to Rocester (home of JCB just to the south of Ashbourne).  When I was looking for ideas for a walk on Thursday I found a booklet I had picked up at the Leaflet Swap.  The Limestone Way passes through Monyash and we have walked on most of the section from Monyash to Youlgreave so that gave me the idea that this year we could walk the Limestone Way – not all in one go – but use it to base a number of circular walks on. So on Thursday after a cottage had departed from our Bakewell cottages we set off for Youlgreave to walk the section from Youlgreave to Elton.  We parked in the little car park at the top end of the village and made our way down to Bradford Dale to pick up the Limestone Way.  Despite the fact it was mid morning we hardly met anyone else along this stretch.  Where the Elton Road crosses the dale we carried on with the path up the hill.  As we rose above Youlgreave we were able to look back down on Youlgreave and across to Over Haddon and eventually we could make out Bolehill Farm on the horizon. As the climbed steepened we passed an old iron age fort before we emerged at the top at Harthill Moor.  The area contains a number of iron age relics including a stone circle. At the top is Robin Hood’s Stride, an impressive gritstone tor.  We took a minor diversion to climb it. It takes it name from a story that Robin Hood strode between the two rocks at either end of the tor but the distance makes this unlikely.  Back on the path we passed Cratcliffe Rocks and just before the path reached Elton we left it to take a parallel path following the line of the village.  By now it was lunchtime so we stopped for lunch with a vista of Robin Hoods Stride and the local countryside.  We walked into Elton and along its main street for a brief while before we then picked up the footpath back to Youlgreave glimpsing Bolehill once we were adjacent to Bleakley Plantation.  Down to Bradford Dale via Mawstone Farm and back to the car.  Pictures to follow.  A last minute booking for the weekend and preparations for a busy day ahead concluded the day.