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392 B5470 Walks & Cycle Routes To (NT) P R T i Via Gritstone A537 Forest National Trentabank Bollin Valley Way Trail : 8km / 5mile Park Boundary & Footpath Junctions Visitor Centre P T i Riding the Ridges Cycle Ride White Nancy Tegg's Nose Cycleway (NCN 70) R Country Park Cheshire Ring Canal Walk P T i 11,12 Middlewood Way P T i Tegg's Nose 60, 62, 64 Other Public Footpaths 58

P N KEY Middlewood Way Langley Roads 10, 11, 12, 392 B5470 FB Fences/Hedges Canals / Rivers Macclesfield Canal Lakes / Reservoirs 14, 16 FB Railway A5090 A523 Silk Road Hurdsfield R Built-up Area

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Buildings Golf Course Forest / Woodland A523 Tytherington Sutton Picnic Site 393 R 'Turnover' Golf A538 Bridge R Lane Ends Course 10, 11, 12, 392, 393 M Museum FB Beechwood 14 P Parking Mews B P T i Prestbury Country Pub Wood 16 M M River R Other Refreshment Tytherington FB Bollin Wood 38 T Toilets MACCLESFIELD

i Information M P R T i A536 FB FB Train Station P PRESTBURY Macclesfield Riverside Park © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. FB Footbridge 107 P R T B5087 Licence No.100019582.2004 B Bus Station B5088 A523 38 Bus Services 1 km 287 See overleaf for details 287 A537 A538 Golf 26, 27, 130 1 mile Course walk. Anticlockwise from Macclesfield, take the Macclesfield the take Macclesfield, from Anticlockwise walk. Kidsgrove, then back up the Macclesfield Canal to the start. the to Canal Macclesfield the up back then Kidsgrove, near Junction Wood Hardings to TrentMersey the & along South turning before Brook Preston to TraceBridgewater the Castlefield. at Bridgewater the join to into Canals Rochdale and Ashton Forest,Peak the then Marple, to Canal Cheshire Ring Canal WalkCanal Ring Cheshire ValleyPartnership.Bollin the by managed are shown paths all Not weather.British the for prepared be and footwear sturdy wear so keep your dog under control. Country paths are not pavements, not are paths Country control. under dog your keep land. Keep to the paths, take all litter home, fasten gates and gates fasten home, litter all take paths, the to Keep land. remember: Please industries near Manchester Ship Canal. Ship Manchester near industries roads, railways and canals and past , to the to Airport, Manchester past and canals and railways roads, car) is an important part of our work. work. our of part important an is car) a without (preferably countryside the enjoy to people Encouraging disabilities. Tasterwith people for Day indicating the indicating programme activity varied a run also Group, Education an by helped Rangers, through fields and woodlands, towns and villages, under and over and under villages, and towns woodlands, and fields through and hedgerows, for both wildlife and people. Partnership people. and wildlife both for hedgerows, and grasslands ponds, woodlands, improve to others with work We Campaign. Basin Mersey the of section Bollin the Trail;coordinate and Transthe Pennineof Park;part Viewing Aviation the Centre; Visitor Parkand Country a sites; picnic several paths; way-marked of km) variety. It ranges from views of the hills above Macclesfield, above hills the of views from variety.ranges It quickly melt into the . Cheshire the into melt quickly farming and recreation. We now look after over 100 miles (160 miles 100 over after look now We recreation. and farming wildlife, for towns around land managing 1972, in experiment ValleyPartnershipBollin The Warburton. near Riverside Park to Partington gives walkers a feel for the Valley’sthe for feel a walkers Partingtongives Parkto Riverside fringe of the Peak District National Park, National District Peak the of fringe Westernthe on Forest, Macclesfield The 25 mile (40km) mile 25 The refer to OS Explorer Maps 268 and 276. 276. and 268 Maps Explorer OS to refer diagrammatically.opportunities and Canal Ship Manchester the into flows now It foothills. Pennine the Bollin River The of reservoirs and slopes wooded The Plain to Peak From The Bollin ValleyWayBollin The Bollin Valley Way and other recreational routes recreational other Valleyand WayBollin is a short tributary of the Mersey which rises in rises which Mersey the of tributary short a is Bollin ValleyWayBollin (please ring for a leaflet) which includes a includes which leaflet) a for ring (please most of these walks cross private farm private cross walks these of most 100 miles (160km) of towpath of (160km) miles 100 started as a pioneering a as started This leaflet is one of 5 of one is leaflet This For more detail, please detail, more For See www.ordsvy.gov.uk.See and other recreational routes between Macclesfield and Prestbury, including .Prestbury,Macclesfield and including Macclesfield between routes recreational other and from Macclesfield from annual P Malcolm Bower (Secretary), 01625 428734 01625 (Secretary), Bower Malcolm Macclesfield Canal Society Canal Macclesfield Service Management Countryside Cheshire Valleyor Bollin MiddlewoodWay 504114, 01625 entrance; 60 Macclesfield – – Lyme Park.Lyme – Mills New – Macclesfield 60 entrance; Tegg’sfrom leaflets 70) Nose, NCN Network, Cycle (National www.cheshireforall.com less but ambulant although accessible, fully footpaths country www.macclesfield.gov.uk 573998, 01625 TouristCentre Macclesfield Information www.silk-macclesfield.org 613210, 01625 Museums Silk Macclesfield Tel Town Hall,MarketPlace,Macclesfield,Cheshire,SK101EA. ValleyPartnership:Bollin information: further for Contacts Trafford Metropolitan BoroughCheshire Council East Council partners: ValleyfundingPartnership Bollin [email protected],www.cheshire.gov.uk/countryside Cycleway Cheshire Ride, Cycle Ridges the Riding Trail Gritstone 511086, 01625 Trentabank Visitor Centre are wheelchair accessible. See accessible. wheelchair are TrentabankCentre Visitor Middlewood the of Park,most Riverside Macclesfield of much However, check. and ring please – level reasonably are they because Valleysuitable the in paths many find will visitors mobile 01625534790, Buses: 762023, 01663 park. deer and gardens 534790.) 01625 ring park, the about leaflet separate Tytherington,Rd, ForValleyManchester Partnership. (Bollin Way,around Tegg’sareas of Parkand parts Country Nose Macclesfield Riverside Park, Riverside Macclesfield Tudor house which was transformed into an Italianate palace; Italianate an into transformed Tudorwas which house ParkLyme or/cycling eople with eople 199 – Manchester Airport passes the park the passes Airport Manchester – Buxton 199 ()(National disabilities. [email protected] [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] [email protected]. [email protected] (56km/35mile trail from to Kidsgrove), to Disley from trail (56km/35mile , Macclesfield, BoroughCouncil RangerService or ring 01244 603107 for more details. more for 603107 01244 ring or Sadly it is impracticable to make all make to impracticable is it Sadly Countryside Areamanager, (Roe St and ParkLane) and St (Roe Beechwood Mews, off Mews, Beechwood 01625 619831, 01625 For full details of all bus services contact Traveline 0870 608 2 608, 2 Traveline608 contact 0870 services bus all of details full For WestMuseum Park 252832, 01260 Forest Macclesfield Centre Visitor Trentabank 614279, 01625 Service Management ParkTegg’sCountry Nose [email protected] days/week. 5 least at run services These Services Bus Services: Rail 393. Macclesfield – Adlington – – Adlington – Macclesfield Stockport – – Bollington – Macclesfield 393. 392. 287. 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Manchester Trans Pennine Trail Ship Canal Manchester A 5 Airport The RiverBollin Altrincham Bridgewater Alderley Edge [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 4 Canal ring 08457 48 49 50 49 48 08457 ring B C (Prestbury Rd) (Prestbury M56 3 D , or 01625 534850. 01625 or , 2 Wilmslow Macclesfield Macclesfield E , , Peak National ParkRangers, National Peak , 1 Canal Cheshire Countryside Cheshire 4 5 3 2 1 E D C B A The Edge at Alderley at Edge The Mill Bank Quarry Massey Dunham TravelTime TownCountry Meets Neighbours Wizard! Plain to PeakFrom Trentabank / Forest Macclesfield Hill Hare & Prestbury including Macclesfield& other recreational Forest routes between Macclesfield VALLEY WAY THE BOLLIN 1 of 5 from Peak to Plain to Peak from

Macclesfield Forest from Tegg’s Nose. Photo courtesy of Jeff Teasdale Macclesfield Bollin ValleyBollin start of the of start Phil Bews’ Phil marks the marks ‘Birdman’ Riverside Way at Way Park

Photo courtesy of Ray Weaver