Longford Park to Sale Water Park
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Longford Park to Sale WATer Park Active Trafford Distance: 2.9 miles / 4.7 km Allow 1 hour 15mins GreenspAcE This walk is one of 1 ten exciting routes designed to help you explore some of Trafford’s most beautiful 2 countryside and 4 parks on foot. 3 Trafford supports a diverse range of open spaces from the historic Longford Park, to visitor attractions such as Sale Water Park and Dunham Massey. Recreational routes, such as the Trans Pennine Trail and Bridgewater 5 Way, pass through the borough’s heart, linking local communities and visitors to the Mersey Valley and beyond. 0 Miles 0.5 Mile 0 Km 1 Km sub-license, distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in form. are not permitted to copy, © Crown copyright and database rights 2016 Ordnance Survey 10050594 You wWw.hErITaGEtreeS.orG.uk Longford Park to Sale WATer Park City of TreeS Team, 6 KanSAs AvEnue, SalFord, M50 2Gl Tel: 0161 872 1660 EMAIL: [email protected] Distance: 2.9 miles / 4.7 km Allow 1 hour 15mins @gmheRitagEtREeS gmheRitagEtREeS WALK desCrIptION AccESSIBILItY POIntS OF intEresT This linear route takes in a Paths are surfaced in areas but 1 Longford Park: Once home to rich variety of landscapes soft underfoot elsewhere. cotton merchant and philanthropist from historic hedgerows, to Some may become muddy John Rylands, the Rylands estate the River Mersey and flood after heavy rainfall. became a public park in 1911. meadows of Sale Ees. Enjoy the Suitable for off-road cyclists. 2 Turn Moss Playing Fields: heritage trees of Longford Park Limited access for wheelchairs Formally Tuff Moss Farm, many and stroll through Turn Moss residents were encouraged to and prams. Sale Ees Playing Fields to join the Trans work the land here during WWII’s Pennine Trail. The route passes ‘Dig for Victory’ Campaign. Stretford Ees and follows the TOILets 3 Hawthorn Lane: This old River Mersey, before passing Sale Water Park. winding lane supports historic through Barrow Brook towards hedgerows and a 19th century the Volunteer Centre at Sale weir visible through the trees. Water Park. Walkers can return via the Metro to Stretford, or StART POIntS 4 Stretford Cemetery: Opened retrace their steps and take a Longford Park, M32 8DA in 1885, the cemetery contains a memorial to residents who lost short cut along Cow Lane, past (recommended) their lives during the Manchester the lake and Broad Ees Dole Sale Water Park, M33 2LX Blitz of 1940. Walk under the Stretford Cemetery Nature Reserve. Bridgewater aqueduct and follow TranSporT linkS signs to Sale Water Park. 5 Sale Ees: This flood basin for Metrolink: the River Mersey supports locally Stretford - Sale Water Park rare plants such as Great Burnet and Meadow Foxtail. Turn Moss Playing Fields.