TrAnS PennIne TrAIl TrEk Active Trafford Distance: 7.6 miles / 12 km Allow 3.5 hours GreenspAcE This walk is one of ten exciting routes designed to help you explore 3 some of Trafford’s most beautiful countryside and parks on foot. 2 1 Trafford supports a diverse 4 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 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 TrAnS PennIne TrAIl TrEk City of TreeS Team, 6 KanSAs AvEnue, SalFord, M50 2Gl Tel: 0161 872 1660 EMAIL: [email protected] Distance: 7.6 miles / 12 km Allow 3.5 hours @gmheRitagEtREeS gmheRitagEtREeS Suitable for off-road cyclists. Eight walk and other routes WALK desCrIptION Limited access for wheelchairs across the borough. and prams. This route takes people on a 2 Stretford Meadows: The journey from Sale Water Park to meadow supports marsh orchids Urmston and back. The route and offers a wide range of follows the northern bank of the TOILets paths waiting to be explored. River Mersey and joins the Trans None. Goldfinches, meadow pipits and buzzards can regularly be seen. Pennine Trial (west), towards the A56 and beyond to Stretford 3 The Lord Nelson: Built in Meadows. From here, walkers StART POIntS 1805, the building originally Stretford Meadows will pass a smallholding and Sale Water Park, M33 2LX functioned as a Court House and travel down a narrow alley to (recommended) had an underground tunnel which connected it to the judge’s join Stretford Road and Meadow Jacksons Boat, M33 2LX Road. Walkers should continue residence, Trafalgar House (opposite). It later became a past the riding stables and the coaching inn which provided Millennium Footbridge to return TranSporT linkS stables at the rear of the building via the Trans Pennine Trial (east). Metrolink: Sale Water Park and permitted bear-baiting at The final leg bears right under the front. the arches of the Bridgewater 4 Stretford Ees: Old flood Way, offering excellent views of The Lord Nelson Stetford Ees and Sale Water Park. POIntS OF intEresT meadows such as Stretford 1 Trans Pennine Trail: The Ees are found along the river. Trail’s journey through Trafford Farmers once flooded these AccESSIBILItY stretches 11 miles from Heatley areas to fertilise the soil in spring to Chorlton Brook car park. Visit and encourage the first ‘flush’ of Large sections of the Trans Pennine www.transpenninetrail.org.uk new grass. Trail are surfaced. Other paths for a more detailed description may become muddy after rainfall. of the Sale Water Park to Urmston Trans Pennine Trail.