Craghoppers Greater Manchester Walking Guidebook - OS Guides

Greater Manchester Pathfinder Walking Guide book comprises of 28 excellent walks. Compiled by local author Andrew Read, who has curated a variety of routes. A variety of 28 walks in its open green spaces, along its river valleys and canal towpaths. Including the moorlands of its West and South Pennine and Peak District fringes. All of the walks are reachable by public transport. Greater Manchester has an excellent network of train, tram and bus services. Details of the stations and stops needed are given in each walk information panel. Pubs and cafés are highlighted along the routes. There is a walking route for everyone. Ten shorter and easier routes in the first ‘green’ chapter. A further ten more half-day ‘blue’ walks. Then finishing with eight longer outings in the ‘orange’ chapter. Some notable points of interest in Greater Manchester include: Broad Mills Heritage Site Traffic-free Trans Pennine Trail Marple Aqueduct RHS Bridgewater 360-degree views of the Pennine bowl on the summit of Tandle Hill Canal towpaths of Greater Manchester Historic deer parkland The walking guidebook of Greater Manchester features walks from 3 to 11 miles. Included are clear large scale Ordnance Survey route maps and GPS way points. Public transport connections and places of interest are noted en route. All routes have been thoroughly researched and walked by author Andrew Reed. What walks are inside the Greater Manchester Walking Guidebook? Moses Gate Country Park Bramhall Park and Happy Valley Heaton Park Didsbury’s Green Spaces and the Mersey Broadbottom Circular Pennington Flash Marple Aqueduct and Chadkirk Chapel Hall i’th Wood and the Kingfisher Trail Peel Tower and the Holcombe Valley Worsley and RHS Bridgewater Wigan Lock Flight and Haigh Plantations Irlam and Chat Moss Hartshead Pike and Quickedge Hill Tandle Hill and the Rochdale Canal Dunham Massey from Altrincham Middlewood Way and Macclesfield Canal Haigh Windmill and Borsdane Wood The Naden Valley and Healey Dell Werneth Low, a station-to-station walk Kirklees Valley and Burrs Country Park Mellor Moor and the Goyt Valley The Piethorne Valley and Crompton Moor Wigan Greenheart Daisy Nook and Park Bridge Watergrove Horseshoe Winter Hill and Smithills Estate Pots & Pans Circular Harrop Edge and Wild Bank Hill