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Hi, we have decided to give millstone edge a try tomorrow. Is the parking apparent and are there any land marks that will help me find the place. I will be driving from Macclesfield.cheers

In reply to DWS gibraltar:

yes

as per ukc or the guide book

In reply to DWS gibraltar:

Yes, it's obvious, at the top of the hill from Hathersage. It's called Surprise View.

In reply to DWS gibraltar:

confusingly, the P&D is very apparent on the road up from Hathersage toward Chesterfield but it's called Surprise View

In reply to DWS gibraltar:

Or, for at least one motorist a year, suprise bend.

In reply to DWS gibraltar:

Dont forget to take your bank card to pay for the ticket, if your lucky the machine wont be working and you can park for free!!!

In reply to toad:

Except that it's not towards Chesterfield, it's towards Fox House/ Sheffield.

In reply to cheeky:

Thanks I didn't realize

In reply to toad:
It's much more obvious why that bend is called Surprise View when driving the other way from Sheffield towards Hathersage. (And as DerwentDiluted says, every once in a while it surprises the odd driver much more than the rest.)

In reply to toad:

As said the Surprise View is when you encounter it from the other direction as from Fox House. I have old postcards from my grandfather showing open bus party trips as they turned the corner with the title , Surprise View .

In reply to bill briggs1:

I don't know why folk don't just park at the bottom of Embankment Wall like I did last time I was there.

In reply to jon:

Remember when it was drive to your climb , belay keyhole cave routes from the passenger seat of the car, the picture of Tom Proctor on the top pitch of Great Arete shows it well ( might be in Peak Rock ) with Escort vans parked around and Millstone regular John Conn leaning against Tom's van.

In reply to bill briggs1:

Hi Bill,
Yes, I remember driving up to pick up Geoff Radcliffe after he had sprained his ankle whilst trying to solo one of the routes right of Great Slab! Didn't do a great deal for the suspension though!

In reply to Graham Hoey:

Or his ankle bumping back down, I'd imagine! The only time I've ever sprained my ankle was on Technical Master (f6B) - I was all of one move off the ground. Luckily I could just step into the car...

In reply to jon:

It just seemed like a petty move when the boulders were placed to stop the drive up, only climbers were ever stupid enough to do it anyway, I think the last straw was when the escourt got dumped there that the seats of were used as boulder mats for for Scrittos Republic.

In reply to jon:
A bit of info about Technical Master (f6B) , just a few memories . When to Millstone one night with Keith Myhill as we went pass the embankment he said had I seen this and climbed up what is now Technical Master very easily , he said he had seen Little Jim from Manchester do it some time before.
Maybe 6 months later I came across Ed Drumond working the line and covered in chalk and when I told him it had been climbed and I had seen Keith do it he would not believe it and seemed quite mad. He did climb it later and gave it the name Technical Master.
At a later date after I had worked it out ,, I was keen to show it to Andy Parkin and let him work it out himself . I remember walking under embankment 1 with Andy behind me and saying its this arete , I walked on a few more paces , turned to see him pull onto the top with his toes sticking out off his clapped out EBs ,