Denise’s Walk, Sunday 20 October 2013
Well, the rain Goddess was blessed by the vagaries of the British weather forecasting. All we had was a wee shower when we were able to shelter under a canal bridge on the Macclesfield Canal.
Well, the rain Goddess was blessed by the vagaries of the British weather forecasting. All we had was a wee shower when we were able to shelter under a canal bridge on the Macclesfield Canal.
14 of us set off from the Adlington Road car park at
Bollington in sunshine. The first part of the walk took us along the Middlewood
Way, including a mini “Stonehenge” offering set up in the grass verge. At
Grimshaw Lane we joined the Macc Canal and headed southwards. At the bridge
adjoining the Hurdsfield Road we enjoyed our coffee break.
We headed by various paths up over Cliff Hill and, as ever
was, a wee googly by Denise took us on the wrong route as she failed to
recognise right from left. However, it allowed us to have our lunch stop with
lovely views over the Cheshire Plain. Re-tracing our steps, we headed on to the
Gritstone Trail for a short while before heading up to Kerridge Ridge with
magnificent views after some steep ups and downs.
Despite Chris Shea’s pleas for a visit to White Nancy,
Denise stuck to her plan and we headed down a steep path beside Endon Quarry to
the lane past Endon House and Endon Hall.
Across a meadow, we turned down a small path which took us
to the Macc Canal once more where many po-faced fisheremen were involved in a
fierce Sunday fishing competition. We
dived off to the left to re-join the Middlewood Way once more and hence to the
Car Park.
The walk was finally 9.72 miles according to Jack's GPS, the extra .72 miles accounted for by the slight navigational error, but then it wouldn't be a Denise walk without one of those!!
