Most of our visitors set off from the farmhouse or cottages and take the scenic route up Stubbins Piece, over Hare Holes and, if they still have breathe left and energy, go up the road a few hundred yards and onto the best footpath of all - over Scotland Pieces to the Big Stone and round the old slate quarries on Cracken Edge and back to the farm.
The view from Scotland Pieces over the heather to Kinder Scout is simply beautiful and worth the pull uphill from 800 feet at the farmhouse to 1400 feet at the top. 
Made it to Hare Holes - now we can enjoy the panoramic views and catch our breath!
On Hare Holes with Todd Brook reservoir in the distance. Todd Brook is the feeder for the historic Buxworth basin and the Peak Forest canal system. When the locks are open the water flows downstream all the way to Liverpool!
Eccles Pike in the centre of the picture is the hill that we see from the farm and which looks so high viewed from there but, as you climb the hill, it seems quite small.
Looking across to Chapel-en-le-Frith from the Lench field- such lovely names for the fields that go back hundreds of years.
Cote Bank Farm seen from Hare Holes with the Goyt Valley hills in the distance on the right - Hare Holes is above the snow line - not that we get that much snow now in winter.
Made it to Hare Holes - now we can enjoy the panoramic views and catch our breath!
On Hare Holes with Todd Brook reservoir in the distance. Todd Brook is the feeder for the historic Buxworth basin and the Peak Forest canal system. When the locks are open the water flows downstream all the way to Liverpool!
Eccles Pike in the centre of the picture is the hill that we see from the farm and which looks so high viewed from there but, as you climb the hill, it seems quite small.
Looking across to Chapel-en-le-Frith from the Lench field- such lovely names for the fields that go back hundreds of years.
Cote Bank Farm seen from Hare Holes with the Goyt Valley hills in the distance on the right - Hare Holes is above the snow line - not that we get that much snow now in winter. 
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