Walk 10 in Between

The Salford Trail is a new, long distance walk of about 50 public transport miles/80 kilometres and entirely within the boundaries The new way to find direct bus services to where you of the City of Salford. The route is varied, going through want to go is Route Explorer. rural areas and green spaces, with a little road walking walk 10 in between. Starting from the cityscape of Salford Quays, tfgm.com/route-explorer the Trail passes beside rivers and canals, through country Access it wherever you are. parks, fields, woods and moss lands. It uses footpaths, tracks and disused railway lines known as ‘loop lines’. Start of walk The Trail circles around to pass through Kersal, Agecroft, Walkden, Boothstown and Worsley before heading off to Train Irlam Station Chat Moss. The Trail returns to Salford Quays from the During the walk historic Barton swing bridge and aqueduct. There are no convenient drop out points on this walk Blackleach End of walk Country Park Bus Number 67 5 3 Clifton Country Park Bus stop location Lord Street Terminus, Cadishead 4 Walkden Roe Green 7 miles/11.5 km, about 4 hours Kersal more information 2 Vale 6 Worsley For information on any changes in the route please 7 Eccles go to visitsalford.info/thesalfordtrail Chat 1 Moss 8 irlam to cadishead Barton For background on the local history that you will Swing Salford This walk explores the outer reaches of 9 Bridge Quays come across on the trail or for information on Little Salford crossing reclaimed peat bogs and Woolden 10 wildlife please go to thesalfordtrail.btck.co.uk Moss farmland to go alongside Glaze Brook. Passing Irlam an old manor house and more pasture, the walk ends at a bus terminus in Cadishead. Cadishead The map above shows the full Salford Trail route in relation to Salford’s boundary. The route highlighted and marked as number ten refers to the route from Irlam to Cadishead. The Trail has been divided into sections, each accessible by public transport. There is a leaflet for each section describing the route and giving the transport options. lf sa o These leaflets are available from your local Gateway Centre e r d h or you can download them from the website t visitsalford.info/thesalfordtrail t r a il look out for the salford trail waymarker. April 2017 d map and directions d R R n n o o Moss Ln t t g g Astley Rd Twelve Yards Rd n i Glazebrook Trail r r The walk starts where Astley Road leaves Liverpool Road a W in Irlam, (about 400m from Irlam station - the station M62 cafe and museum is well worth a visit!). Walk down Astley Road, which soon leaves the built up area and opens onto the Moss. As the road bends to the right take Roscoe Rd the footpath on your left. Liverpool Rd R d ills Holcroft Ln Moss Rd Fairh Walk 9 brings you to this point* from Peel Green and Astley Rd allows 9 and 10 to be combined without going into Irlam. M62 The path leads across fields to a stile to gain access to Gl az Way e r br u ook T Start b Moss Road at Rosebank Farm. Turn right here and walk rail Moss Rd li ca Ex Cadishead Way Darby Rd d along Moss Road, soon passing over the M62 motorway. d Bessemer Woolden Rd R t Rd s i r Walk straight on, past occasional houses and farms h Holcroft Ln c l i to reach a wooded area and then Little Wooldon Moss G N ew M62 M M Nature Reserve. Peat was extracted here up to the os s Rd a r d t R Fir St e s beginning of this century. Turn right and then twice left n Cadishead Way Liverpool Rd around the edge of the reserve along a well made path, Finish eventually reaching a small footbridge on your right. Cross this to reach a track and turn left, continuing Go under a railway bridge to emerge 100m from the alongside the drain. Turn right at the T junction and pass terminus of the 67 bus. Moss Lodge, Red House and White Gate farms. Follow This is the end of walk 10 of the Salford Trail but there is the track, now metalled, curving to the left passing a pleasant continuation of the Glazebrook Trail down to another farm. After 700m turn left onto the Glazebrook the A57 road. Follow the signs across the playing fields / Timberland Trail, past farm buildings on your right and and behind the housing estate, then through woods and heading for a small wood. along narrow paths to reach the main road near to the Follow the path, which turns down to run alongside the stone bridge marking the boundary between Salford and wide Glazebrook. As the path leaves the brook and turns Wigan. up towards Little Woolden Hall take the signed footpath sharp left. Follow this to the Little Woolden Nature Reserve and turn right then left along its margin. Turn right to retrace your steps along the path to reach the motorway but then take the next right to Great Woolden Hall. Turn left here and continue through fields on the Glazebrook Trail..

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