Broadbottom Circular 2 Follow the Main Path Through 4 Follow the Lane (Hodge Lane) Downhill
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Introducing Walk 11 Manchester’s Countryside Broad Mills Heritage Site Broadbottom 11 Keep forward with the wide path and 15 Steps and a further stile lead through a rightwards up the slope to reach hollow into a field beyond, at the signpost Broadbottom Road via a kissing gate bear half left towards the large ash tree to Circular opposite ‘The Waggon’ public house. a stile on the far side, onto Pingot Lane. 12 Turn right for 80 metres then left on a 16 Cross Pingot Lane and follow the path footpath climbing steps through the wall winding down alongside the hedge on the between houses to a stile leading into a left, at the gap by the oak tree bear slightly field. Go up the fenced path up the left side left and drop down under the holly bushes, of the field, over three stiles, to reach a continue on the path to reach a stile on to driveway near Home Farm. Hague Road (a quiet farm lane). Turn right. 13 Go forward for only 10 metres and over 17 Follow Hague Road all the way to a the stile on the left. Head slightly left across road, Gorsey Brow and left down to the the field to a stile by a gate, near holly main road in Broadbottom. Turn left under bushes. Go up the right edge of the next the railway and in a further 200 metres, field, to a stile where the fence bears left right into Lymefield. and forward to a stile by a gate on to Littlemoor Road. For further visitor information on Tameside Countryside telephone: 0161 330 9613 14 Turn left for 80 metres to a stile on the right. Across this, follow the fenced path This walk forms part of a series of walks and between ponds to another stile. Then go trails developed by Manchester's Countryside. along the right edge of the field beyond to a stile at the far end. (A wide view opens For more information on up across the Pennines). Over the stile turn Manchester's Countryside, including left then right with the field edge, downloads of the walks, visit www.manchesterscountryside.com descending to the trees. Broadbottom – Hodgefold – Telephone: 01942 825677; email: [email protected] Hurst Clough – The Hague – Broadbottom 2 Follow the main path through 4 Follow the lane (Hodge Lane) downhill. Broadbottom Circular the area. Go past the old 14 This lane can be muddy. Soon pass the dye 11 Distance: gas holder (circular wall) vats (once used to bleach and dye cloth and 4 miles/6.5km. Moderate. then the mill 13 15 dating from the time of the large Hodge Starting point: races and the Printworks that once stood in this area). 12 Lymefield Visitor Centre, off Lower Market wheel pit on your 5 Keep forward when a tarmac lane Street, Broadbottom. Grid ref. SJ 996935. right to the comes in from the right to reach the How to get there: river’s edge. cottages at Hodge Fold. As the lane curves By car – Two miles south of the A57 from Broadbottom Road left, just after a stream. Leave it to go Mottram in Longdendale, between Hyde Hurst 10 16 forward in front of cottage and turn right and Glossop. Overspill car parking at the Clough adjoining Lymefield Mill on Saturday Walk 11 on a path immediately beyond it, just as afternoons and Sundays. Pingot Lane the track narrows. By bus – From Manchester via Hyde, 9 6 Climb, with the path, alongside a or from Glossop. garden fence, straight on past a chalet on By train – Broadbottom Station on the N your left, to a wicket gate leading into Manchester via Newton for Hyde line. Turn 8 Great Wood. Follow the path winding right onto Mottram Road, under the Hague Road viaduct, through the village and right down through the wood, to a bridge over the 1/4 1/2 3/4 1 to Lymefield Visitor Centre. railway, cross the bridge. Greater Manchester 7 Immediately across the bridge go mile River Etherow Public Transport Information through the stile on the right, on a path 0161 228 7811 www.gmpte.com parallel to the railway. Take the left fork and Gorsey Brow Walk summary: follow the path into the clough. Quiet lanes, a little known wooded clough 17 7 8 Where the path drops down to the and farmland combine to make an Broadbottom Station Broadbottom stream cross the footbridge and swing to attractive and varied walk. Good the right, recross the steam by a second views from the higher ground. 6 START (Train) footbridge. 3 The Walk 4 9 Climb up then turn left where a path 1 From the visitor centre turn left down to Moss Lane START (Car, Bus) River Etherow comes in from the right, then left again the bottom of the road then turn right in 1 Lymefield where a second path comes in, front of Lymefield Terrace and go ahead 5 2 Visitor continuing up the clough fork right before through the kissing gate to enter the Centre the third footbridge (do not cross it) climb Broad Mills area. (There are information Lymefield Mill boards at various locations explaining the Hodge Lane up and turn left following clough up history of this area, once the site of huge Leyland Farm stream. cotton mills). 3 Continue through the wood, up some 10 Fork left and cross the fourth steps to a kissing gate, do not cross the footbridge, then climb up the steps to the footbridge but climb up the steep tarmac top, to emerge out of the wood onto path. Turn left past the end of a terrace of open land, follow the path up beside the houses and follow the path to join a wider wooded valley on your right, go through lane via a gate at the cottages of the stile. Broad Mills Summerbottom. Looking across to the moors .