A: Standedge, Marsden, Pule-Hill; 12.0ml
Coordinator: Ian Helliwell
Start: A62 at the end of Redbrook Res dam SE025099; park on verge (or end of Mount Road SE028101)
Pub: The Station or The Riverhead Marsden
Maps: OLl21 South Pennines, OL1 Dark Peak
Route: North on footpath round to Thieves Clough. Ascend to meet Pennine Way. Follow Pennine way north to SE004121. NE to March Hill (if too boggy we'll turn right down Rapes Highway). E down to March Haigh res. Eastward to Tunnel End via The Dean, Lower Green Owlers and footpaths to Berry Greave. Canal to Marsden. Pub (either the Station or The Riverhead).
Pack horse bridge at SE047117 then S to A62. Footpaths S via Manor Farm to ascend and head W to air shafts at Firth Pule. W then N to follow edge up to summit of Pule Hill. S down to cross Mount Rd continue S to SE033097 then SW to SE035097. Follow gutter E then SW then W round to Swellends Res. E to Black Moss res and Pennine Way. N to meet the old road (Standedge Trail). E to SE031096. N round to Redbrook Res and back to the cars.
B: Middlewood Way, Lyme Park; 7.4ml
Done: 01/09/2021
Start: car park by Middlewood Way SJ942827
Pub: Boars Head Poynton SJ943833
Maps: Dark Peak West
AM Route: to rd, fp E/SE via Haag Farm to canal. Cross, fp/rd ENE to 955824, S/E to Bowstonegate, N/NW/N over Cage Hill, Parkgate, trk SW to Macclesfield Canal. Towpath S to 945832, where cross rd to pub.
PM Route: Middlewood Way S to cars.