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…
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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…
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.…
Not Quite Tier 3 Yes folks, today is the last day I can leave Greater Manchester until who knows when, so I thought I’d go for a well-known classic upland walk in the Goyt Valley, parts of which I have walked before, but some bits that are new to me.…
A Stroll Of Exploration Broadbottom is a small village, in Tameside , to the east of Hattersley. I walked from here down the River Etherow to Botham’s Hall, south to Chew and back via Woodseats about 6 weeks ago with our son Adam. It was a lovely walk, but we…
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Travel time 50 minutes each way. I went via the Cat and Fiddle road for the spectacular views. Walk time 3 hours plus a 15 minute stop for lunch, plus a stop on each summit. It’ was just over 6 miles but the hike, or indeed, scramble, over the two…
Travel time 40 minutes each way Walk time 2 hours Weather – warm and sunny Ordnance Survey Explorer Map OL1 Parking – Visitor Centre Car Park (£4 for 4 hours, cash only despite these COVID times) For my first walk to be included in the blog I was joined by…
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