Category: <span>6 to 8 mile walks</span>

6 to 8 mile walks West Cheshire, Warrington & Wirral

Introduction I like to visit Coombes Valley RSPB reserve just south of Leek every spring, always hoping to see its speciality bird, the pied flycatcher. This year, I chose to combine my trip with a longer walk in this lovely Staffordshire countryside. Travel time –50 minutes each way. Walk time…

6 to 8 mile walks Derbyshire Dales & Staffs Moorlands

Introduction It’s likely that everyone reading this has visited this part of north Staffordshire. Yet, while the rollercoasters’ roars and thrill seekers’ shrieks provide the background drone from the world -renowned Alton Towers Theme Park, nature carries on serenely in the adjacent Churnet valley. In fact, but for the the…

6 to 8 mile walks Derbyshire Dales & Staffs Moorlands

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Introduction For several months during lockdown, my wife Caroline has been saying she’s heard great things about the views from Bamford Edge, above the village of Bamford and the south end of Ladybower Reservoir, and that we must go there when lockdown ends and the weather is on our side.…

6 to 8 mile walks Derbyshire High Peak

Introduction Inspired by some pictures posted by Lucy Goldsmith, one of my Twitter followers and a former colleague at Weaver Vale Housing Trust, I headed out through Glossop on the A57 Snake Pass from Manchester to Sheffield. My walk was designed to follow parts of the Rivers Ashop and Alport…

6 to 8 mile walks Derbyshire High Peak

Introduction Which is it? The former is in common use, but the latter is as stated on the OS Map. Whichever, it is a beautiful spot, where I have walked several times, and yet today, I completed a 7 mile walk, with just a few hundred yards of path that…

6 to 8 mile walks Derbyshire Dales & Staffs Moorlands Derbyshire High Peak East Cheshire

Where Have I Been? My last post ended with the line “But, sadly, my next blog post could be some way off, folks.” That was on 31st December 2020. The knee injury I suffered when falling off a rock in the snow near Bramhall Park seems a long time ago.…

6 to 8 mile walks Derbyshire High Peak

Introduction Sometimes, even the most ardent blogger runs out of time, and so it is that this post is a catch-up from last week. Adam joined me for this trip to Tameside, and the village of Mossley, nestling in the Tame Valley to the north of Stalybridge. I drove north…

6 to 8 mile walks Greater Manchester Tameside

A Day Of Two Halves OK, I know I live in Tier 3 Greater Manchester… so what was I doing in Staffordshire. Well sadly, I was attending the funeral of my cousin and godmother, Wendy Harding (25/8/39 – 19/11/20) at Bushbury Crematorium on the north side of Wolverhampton. It was…

6 to 8 mile walks

Introduction – Lockdown 2, Walk 2 Staying local again, I decide to start and finish my walk in Stockport Borough, but walk predominantly in East Cheshire as I circle the village of Poynton, taking in farmland, woodland, pretty streams, some industrial archaeology, and the delightful Poynton Pool. The first half…

6 to 8 mile walks East Cheshire