Introduction I chose to head into the South Pennines today, starting my walk in the pretty village of Delph. in the borough of Oldham. The weather has been quite kind this week, and so it continued today with pretty much wall to wall sunshine for this walk. The journey took…
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Introduction The second half of September was blighted by heavy rain. With the ground so wet, I decided to stick to what I hoped would be fairly well made paths in an urban country park area. I wasn’t disappointed, as this is a really interesting area to explore. The weather…
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Introduction A cool, windy day greeted me as I set out on today’s short walk. For the most part, the walk is completed to a background hum of traffic on the M56, and thus may not be to everyone’s taste, but for me the gorgeous valley of the River Bollin…
Introduction Happy New Year to all my readers. A new year, and a new approach today, as I decided to take the train to my starting point. There has been a lot of rain this week, but the sun shone as I left home at 1010, catching the 1021 from…
Introduction The crisp sunny weather earlier in the week has given way to overcast Atlantic air, and it was raining by the time I finished this walk. It’s a 35 minute drive from Cheadle Hulme to Tandle Hill Country Park. The walk is 7.4 miles with about 650 feet of…
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Introduction The classic autumnal cloudy, dank weather conditions are persisting. But they aren’t putting me off my weekly dose of the countryside. Today, I reminded myself (not that I really needed to), that some of the best walking within my 1 hour target maximum journey time, is right on the…
Introduction Storm Ciaran is with us, but I decided it was still worth getting out for a short walk to enjoy some autumnal colour. In fact, the weather was dark and moody with low cloud, but very little rain and only a very light breeze. The walk is 4.5 miles…
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Introduction A short walk in the hills where Stockport meets the Derbyshire High Peak. It was comfortable walking weather, around 15deg C, cloudy and rather breezy. It was very grey and dull, which, I heard later, was due to storm Agnes picking up smoke from American wildfires, and dropping it…
Introduction With reasonable weather expected, I decided it would be a good day for a Pennine moorland walk. It was a good walking day, 16 degC, with a mixture of cloud and sunshine! The walk started on the A6033 between Littleborough and Todmorden, a 50 minute drive from Cheadle Hulme.…
Introduction Yesterday was such a beautiful spring day, Cal and I just had to get out and enjoy it. Mellor is a district of Stockport that is full of interesting places and great views. The drive to Mellor is almost half an hour from Cheadle Hulme. This is aneasy 2.3…
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