ort est 02 Taxal Edge & Windgather Ramblers Rocks, Routes DISTANCE 10KM/6½ MILES ASCENT 302M/990FT TIME 4 HOURS TYPE MOOR AND VALLEY

To download this route NAVIGATION FITNESS PERFECT NUMBER and hundreds of others, visit LEVEL LEVEL FOR OF STILES ramblers.org.uk/routes EASY LEISURELY VIEWS 14

This part of eastern Cheshire Walk along the ‘Dead START 4 is a rugged landscape of & FINISH End’ road to use the 1 fi ngerposted stile (R) in Liverpool ridges, crags and moorland. 120m, then angle L to a farm From tiny Kettleshulme 2 road. Turn R on this and village, this circular walk keep L at two forks, ignoring the lane to Hollowcowhey heads up to magnifi cent 7 Farm. Beyond a spinney, viewpoints before plunging cross bridge into the secluded Todd Brook and rise easily past barns Plan your walk to approach the lane-end valley, passing cute Jenkin farmhouse and a fl urry of WHERE Circular walk from Chapel (above) and breeze- footpath signs. Kettleshulme, Cheshire. ri— ed hay meadows START/END Kettleshulme Take the path R for Church (SJ988799). 5 ROUTE BY Kettleshulme. In 50m, TERRAIN Lanes and tracks, NEIL COATES drop R o• the fi eld road, good moorland paths, fi eld 6 looking carefully for the paths, marshy in places. START Face tree-shaded footbridge in the 1 MAPS OS Explorer OL24; Kettleshulme Church valley bottom. Cross and aim Landranger 118. and walk L up Paddock ahead roughly towards the GETTING THERE High Peak bus Lane to the main road. 5 distant top corner of the damp, number 60 or 60A (not Sundays Cross into Flatts Lane, thistly pasture and use a stile. or bank holidays) to Kettleshulme dropping L to the fork Follow the ragged hedgeline from or beyond the bridge. Join to a waymarked stile (R), then Macclesfi eld (Traveline: 0871 the steep, partly tarred head to the derelict Redfern 200 2233, travelline.org.uk). old lane (‘Unsuitable farmhouse beyond the brook. Kettleshulme Church is oŸ the For Motors’), rising B5470 in Kettleshulme, down steadily to a T-junction Turn L over the stile at 6 Paddock Lane. beyond housing (650m). L of the building and EATING & DRINKING The Turn R to the stile L accompany the line of this wall/ 3 Swan Inn, Kettleshulme (75m), waymarked for 4 hedge over more stiles to reach (01663 732943). Taxal. Now head directly a remote cottage (NB: not the SLEEPING Kinrara B&B, up-fi eld to the obvious gap up-fi eld farm complex). The access Whaley Bridge (01663 734587, in the skyline wall. lane reaches a T-junction in 700m. kinrara-bedandbreakfast.co.uk); Robin Hood Inn, Rainow Turn R through the handgate Turn L to Kettleshulme village, 2 7 (01625 574060). here and follow the wall along views of the Dark Peak’s moors and where candlewick (for miners’ VISITOR INFORMATION Taxal Edge for 1km. Always remain crests, to a T-junction beyond Pym safety lamps) manufacture survived Macclesfi eld Visitor Information above the highest wall, ignoring Chair car park. until the 1930s. Turn R down the Centre, Market Street (01625 gaps/gates to the R. On reaching the main road to fi nd the Swan Inn. 378123, visitcheshire.com). fi r plantation, turn R, then R again Turn R downhill towards Opposite this, a waymarked footpath 3 GUIDEBOOK Walking in East towards Backhillgate Farm. In front Saltersford to fi nd tree-shaded strikes straight through a nursery Cheshire by Steve Goodier of the farmhouse, turn L (signed), Jenkin Chapel at a sharp-L corner. to reach the church. (£4.95, Kittiwake, wall-side, for , Built in 1733 to serve the dispersed ISBN 978 1908748379). climbing steadily to gain the top local community and travellers LOCAL RAMBLERS GROUP edge of these angular gritstone along the packhorse routes linking reate our o route East Cheshire (01260 278018, outcrops. Use a handgate to join an Cheshire’s Deeside ports and Register an account at ramblers.org.uk/createroutes ramblers.org.uk/east-cheshire). o• -road concessionary path along salt-workings with inland markets,

PHOTO: NEIL COATES. MAP: CROWN COPYRIGHT 2018 ORDNANCE SURVEY. MEDIA LICENCE 049/18. CREATED WITH MEMORY-MAP CREATED MEDIA LICENCE 049/18. ORDNANCE SURVEY. 2018 COPYRIGHT MAP: CROWN NEIL COATES. PHOTO: the heathery ridge, with expansive it is refreshingly unaltered.

Walk59_47_RR02_NORTH WEST_final.indd 47 09/05/2018 17:43