Cheshire Ring canal walk

09th: Cheshire Ring canal walk

Our hardy crew of Linda, Tracy, Sue and myself met up at Stockport station on Saturday for the second stage of our Cheshire canal ring walk. After various alarms
on the journey to the station, we all made the 9.58 train…..just……. We alighted at Kidsgrove; steps from the car park took us down on to the Trent & Mersey towpath and onto Hardings Wood Junction, where it was a left turn towards Macclesfield.

We lunched at the excellent Queens Head at Congleton, surreptitiously munching our sarnies whilst sitting on their patio. We met up with a couple of lads who were doing
the same route as us but who were camping out ‘wild’ in Macclesfield (now there’s a thought…). The scenery through the countryside towards Macc was wonderful on a
pleasant afternoon, in particular on the flight of locks at Bosley.

We had a refreshment break at the Fools Nook alongside the Macc- Leek road, most welcome as the pub had been shut on my previous visit. We came off the canal
at The Old Kings Head at Macc and proceeded by way of The Railway View to Wetherspoons for victuals, including the sorry story of a roast chicken dinner covered
in some most unwanted barbecue sauce.

At a somewhat late hour, we finally made our way back on the train to Stockport, where we literally bumped into Digger on his way back from a Grand Designs
exhibition at the NEC.

Our next leg is planned to cover Macc to Hyde by way of Marple and we will try to organize this so that it doesn’t clash with any other SWOG event…..

John H