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 7 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 Bus Number 33, 66, 68 Chat Moss. The Trail returns to Salford Quays from the Bus stop location Barton Road/ Worsley Court House historic Barton swing bridge and aqueduct. During the walk Blackleach Bus Number 22 Country Park 5 3 Clifton Bus stop location Monton Green Country Park 4 End of walk (Route A) Walkden Roe Green Bus Number 19, 22, 52, 68, 100 3.5 miles/6 km, about 2 hours Kersal 2 Vale Bus stop location Barton Road /Barton Bridge 6 Worsley 7 Eccles End of walk (Route B) Chat 1 Moss 8 Barton Bus Number 10, 63 worsley to Swing Salford 9 Bridge Quays Bus stop location Verdant Lane barton or brookhouse Little Woolden 10 This walk goes through Worsley Woods to Monton Moss Irlam more information and along the Bridgewater Canal to Barton Swing For information on any changes in the route please Aqueduct. An alternative route along the Salford go to visitsalford.info/thesalfordtrail Greenway leads to Brookhouse and Peel Green. Cadishead For background on the local history that you will The map above shows the full Salford Trail route in relation come across on the trail or for information on to Salford’s boundary. The route highlighted and marked as wildlife please go to thesalfordtrail.btck.co.uk number seven refers to the route from Worsley to Barton or Brookhouse. The Trail has been divided into sections, each accessible by public transport. There is a leaflet for each section lf sa o describing the route and giving the transport options. e r d h These leaflets are available from your local Gateway Centre t or you can download them from the website t visitsalford.info/thesalfordtrail r a il look out for the salford trail waymarker. April 2017 map and directions The walk starts at Worsley Green at the humpback bridge This is the end of Walk 7 and the start of Walk 8 to Greenleach Ln over the Bridgewater Canal. Cross the bridge onto the Salford Quays. village green, going around the left side to reach the busy Worsley Road. Cross this and go up Mill Brow to the right B. * To reach the beginning of Walk 9 across Chat Moss: Worsley Rd r of the row of offices and restaurants. This leads directly Immediately under the railway bridge take the steps up D k c o t s into Worsley Woods with fine views of The Aviary across s d to the path which runs alongside the railway. Continue d Chatsworth Rd o o o o Sefton Dr Worsley Rd Old Warke Dam. At the black and white Mock Tudor W D T straight along, keeping the railway embankment on r Start h y e ee w Gr n cottage turn right and then keep straight on to reach the o your right and crossing two roads to reach a wide path o d A steps down onto the ‘loop-line’. Turn right, soon passing B v between school playing fields and the embankment. Stay a e r t o Broadoak n through a short tunnel and the abandoned Worsley on this now wide path as it curves gently to the left in R Park d railway station. Keep straight on to reach Monton in open countryside (Salford Greenway). As it nears the about 800m. Dukes M60 motorway on your right it joins another path from Verdun RdDrive ood Cres tw the left and goes under the motorway, emerging into es As the path slopes down to Monton Green turn right and W Brookhouse Avenue. Turn left and then right into Senior cross over the Bridgewater Canal staying on the right Algernon St Road, At the end of Senior Road where it turns right and side of Parrin Lane. Over the bridge turn right and drop Parrin Ln becomes Northfleet Road there is a short passage with M60 down to the canal side and go back under the bridge seven concrete stumps at the end of it. Walk down the and past the Waterside Pub with the Monton Lighthouse M602 Canal Bank passage to emerge near the bus stop on Verdant Lane at M602 across the water. Follow the canal for 800m passing Green Ln the side of Brookhouse cemetery. under a motorway crosses until a railway bridge * M602 overhead. This is the start of Walk 9 from Brookhouse to Irlam Winton W M62 Park or sley R across Chat Moss. d There are two options here. A. To reach Barton Swing M60 Cromwell Rd Aqueduct B. Walk 9 across Chat Moss. New Ln A. To reach Barton Swing Aqueduct and the start of Walk 8 to Salford Quays: Liverpool Rd Continue on the canal towpath; it soon goes under the Brookhouse Ave A57 road and is joined by a road on the right which the towpath eventually leads into. (At this point look along Edison Rd rdan M60 Ve t Ln Liverpool Rd the canal - 100m away it enters the swing aqueduct to Finish pass over the Manchester Ship Canal.) Go along the road Finish to the nearby traffic lights and cross over Barton Lane to Peel Green Rd Peel the Pocket Park - worth a detour to look at the canal and Green road swing bridges. Liverpool Rd.