Trespass Trail 1 - Millennium Walkway
From the New Mills Heritage and Information Centre (SK 000854) off Rock Mill Lane (behind the bus station), descend into the Torrs gorge and turn right.
1. Cross the Millennium Walkway (SJ 999854), an awe-inspiring and award-winning, 160-metre long, icon to access. This £525,000 walkway, an aerial path partly attached to a huge Victorian railway retaining wall and partly supported on giant pillars rising from the river bed, was opened in 2000 by Derbyshire County Council to fill the missing link in the valley footpath network.
A plaque at the entrance commemorates Stan Brewster, the County engineer who supervised its construction and who was tragically killed in the London bombings of July 2005.
Continue walking by the River Goyt along a wide path until it reaches a tarmac track in an area called Mousley Bottom. Cross the track into part of the Torrs Riverside Park which was reclaimed from the former town gas works. The path takes you to the left of a circular pit which formerly housed a gasholder.
Keep right leaving the former gasworks and pass a renovated cruck barn on your left, then take the woodland path left behind the high stone wall to the rear of the barn. This area is a former landfill site now managed as woodland by Derbyshire County Council.
