Tel: 0161 427 6937 6937 427 0161 Tel: please contact the V the contact please isitor Centre. Centre. isitor For leaflets and details of all events and activities, activities, and events all of details and leaflets For Leaflet Supported By: By: Supported Leaflet railway stations. stations. railway Station and Compstall Village via Marple and Romiley Romiley and Marple via Village Compstall and Station Make no unnecessary noise noise unnecessary no Make • Buses 383 and 384 between Stockport Central Bus Bus Central Stockport between 384 and 383 Buses Protect wildlife, plants and trees trees and plants wildlife, Protect • How to get to Etherow Country Park: Park: Country Etherow to get to How Help to keep all water clean clean water all keep to Help • in advance. advance. in Take your litter home home litter your Take • key. Motorised wheelchairs are available free of charge by booking booking by charge of free available are wheelchairs Motorised key. pay and display car park. Accessible toilets are operated on a radar radar a on operated are toilets Accessible park. car display and pay Use gates and stiles stiles and gates Use • A cafeteria and toilets are located next to the Visitor Centre in the the in Centre Visitor the to next located are toilets and cafeteria A Keep to footpaths footpaths to Keep • 11am - 4pm Daily. Daily. 4pm - 11am Keep your dogs under close control control close under dogs your Keep • We endeavour to open the visitor centre between between centre visitor the open to endeavour We Visitor Centre opening times: times: opening Centre Visitor (except Christmas Day) Day) Christmas (except Fasten all gates gates all Fasten • 0161 474 4480 4480 474 0161 telephone: Please print. large and Guard against all risk of fire fire of risk all against Guard • This information can be made available in audio, braille braille audio, in available made be can information This COUNTRYSIDE COUNTRYSIDE the for Respect Themed walks walks Themed • Practical community task days days task community Practical • Interpretive displays in the Visitor Centre Centre Visitor the in displays Interpretive • School education visits visits education School • Country Park and Local Nature Reserve Reserve Nature Local and Park Country ETHEROW ETHEROW Sailing club club Sailing • Model boat club club boat Model • trails trails nature Angling at the mill ponds ponds mill the at Angling • Self guided walks and trails trails and walks guided Self • self guided guided self English Language Service on 0161 477 9000 9000 477 0161 on Service Language English with this information. Please telephone Stockport Stockport telephone Please information. this with A free interpreting service is available if you need help help need you if available is service interpreting free A events events Activities and TEL: 0161 427 6937 6937 427 0161 TEL: George St, Compstall, Stockport. SK6 5JD 5JD SK6 Stockport. Compstall, St, George Etherow Country Park & Local Nature Reserve, Reserve, Nature Local & Park Country Etherow What is a A Short History of A haven for Local Nature Reserve? Etherow Wildlife In urban areas, access to the peace and beauty of natural A rural retreat Etherow Country Park is now owned and managed by Friends of Etherow, Etherow Community Council and surroundings is essential to human well-being and quality Stockport Council and is an award winning Green Flag Park. members of the local community with an interest in the of life. In Stockport, Local Nature Reserves are able to It was established in 1968 as one of Britain’s first Country Park are involved in its continuing development through Parks and is a popular retreat from urban living. formal consultation, a range of small projects, wildlife provide for this by giving people special opportunities to Over a quarter of a million people now visit the Park each monitoring, practical action and assisting with funding see, enjoy and learn about wild plants, animals and year to enjoy the natural beauty of ancient woodland walks applications. along the Etherow river valley, in the foothills of the Peak natural features. District National Park. Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) At the same time they can protect the most important The Park was once part of the estate of George Andrew who Compstall SSSI supports rare plants and animals that are built Compstall Mill in the 1820s. Operation of the cotton of national importance. It is very sensitive to disturbance places locally for wildlife and natural features, increase mill required a large workforce and in the tradition of mill and being remote, has limited access. If you would like to people’s awareness of the importance of nature and help owners of the day, George Andrews built the village of visit this area of the Park, a permit may be obtained from to forge partnerships between local people, wildlife Compstall, the church and school. the Visitor Centre. Please remember to keep disturbance to a minimum. organisations and local authorities. The mill was powered by 50 million gallons of water per day, collected from above the weir. That’s enough water to fill Discovering Nature 150 swimming pools! Held back by the weir, the River Despite its industrial past, the ancient Keg Woodland Local Nature Reserves are a nationally recognised, statutory Etherow broke its banks upstream to create valuable wetland ‘cloughs’* survive on the valley slopes, and Ernocroft Wood habitats. The water then passed down the feeder canal and designation, established under the National Parks and and the wetlands of Keg Pool and Marsh have gradually across what is now the car park to drive the water wheel, been reclaimed, both by man and by nature. Access to the Countryside Act 1949. ‘Big Lily’. The importance of these areas for wildlife was officially User Groups recognised in 1969 by the declaration of a Site of Special Scientific Interest, now managed by the Cheshire Wildlife The park attracts many different interest groups including, Trust, and in 2000 by the designation of all three areas Etherow Model Boat Club, Etherow Sailing Club and as a Local Nature Reserve. Stockport & District Anglers Federation *Cloughs - steeply incised small valleys. who all make use of the lake and canal feeder facilities. Foreign invaders Rhododendron, Himalayan balsam and Japanese knotweed were introduced to Britain for ornamental reasons but have become aggressively dominant, displacing native plants and seriously reducing wildlife interest. Here at Etherow, site management focuses on trying to minimise their impact on native species. Tel: 0161 427 6937 427 0161 Tel: please contact the Visitor Centre. Visitor the contact please For leaflets and details of all events and activities, and events all of details and leaflets For Leaflet Supported By: Supported Leaflet railway stations. railway Station and Compstall Village via Marple and Romiley and Marple via Village Compstall and Station Make no unnecessary noise unnecessary no Make • Buses 383 and 384 between Stockport Central Bus Central Stockport between 384 and 383 Buses Protect wildlife, plants and trees trees and plants wildlife, Protect • How to get to Etherow Country Park: Country Etherow to get to How Help to keep all water clean clean water all keep to Help • in advance. in Take your litter home home litter your Take • key. Motorised wheelchairs are available free of charge by booking by charge of free available are wheelchairs Motorised key. pay and display car park. Accessible toilets are operated on a radar a on operated are toilets Accessible park. car display and pay Use gates and stiles stiles and gates Use • A cafeteria and toilets are located next to the Visitor Centre in the in Centre Visitor the to next located are toilets and cafeteria A Keep to footpaths footpaths to Keep • 11am - 4pm Daily. 4pm - 11am Keep your dogs under close control control close under dogs your Keep • We endeavour to open the visitor centre between centre visitor the open to endeavour We Visitor Centre opening times: opening Centre Visitor (except Christmas Day) Christmas (except Fasten all gates gates all Fasten • 0161 474 4480 474 0161 telephone: Please print. large and Guard against all risk of fire of risk all against Guard • This information can be made available in audio, braille audio, in available made be can information This COUNTRYSIDE the for Respect Themed walks walks Themed • Practical community task days task community Practical • Interpretive displays in the Visitor Centre Visitor the in displays Interpretive • School education visits education School • Country Park and Local Nature Reserve Nature Local and Park Country ETHEROW Sailing club Sailing • Model boat club boat Model • trails nature Angling at the mill ponds mill the at Angling • Self guided walks and trails and walks guided Self • efguided self English Language Service on 0161 477 9000 477 0161 on Service Language English with this information. Please telephone Stockport telephone Please information. this with A free interpreting service is available if you need help need you if available is service interpreting free A events Activities and TEL: 0161 427 6937 427 0161 TEL: George St, Compstall, Stockport. SK6 5JD SK6 Stockport. Compstall, St, George Etherow Country Park & Local Nature Reserve, Nature Local & Park Country Etherow What is a A Short History of A haven for Local Nature Reserve? Etherow Wildlife In urban areas, access to the peace and beauty of natural A rural retreat Etherow Country Park is now owned and managed by Friends of Etherow, Etherow Community Council and surroundings is essential to human well-being and quality Stockport Council and is an award winning Green Flag Park. members of the local community with an interest in the of life. In Stockport, Local Nature Reserves are able to It was established in 1968 as one of Britain’s first Country Park are involved in its continuing development through Parks and is a popular retreat from urban living.