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Route outline for walk d221:

Errwood Reservoir  -  The Goyt Valley  -  Shooter's Clough  -  Shining Tor  -  The Tors  -  Cats Tor  -  Oldgate Nick  -  Pym Chair  -  Goyt Forest  -  Windgather Rocks  -  Taxal Edge  -  Overton Hall Farm  -  The Midshires Way  -  Madscar Farm  -  Mill Clough  -  Knife Farm  -  Goyt Valley  -  Fernilee Reservoir  -  Hoo Moor  -  Deep Clough  -  Jep Clough  -  The Street  -  The Goyt Valley  -  Errwood Reservoir

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Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:

The odd shaped lumps of rock strewn across so many of the South West's tors are collectively known as 'clitter'.

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Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

0 English Mountains

0 Wainwrights

0 English Nuttalls

2 English Deweys

0 Wainwright Outlying Fells

1 Marilyn

0 Bridgets

Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is Shining Tor at 559m (1835ft). Shining Tor is also known as an English Dewey (54th highest in England, 124th in England & Wales) and an English Marilyn (59th highest in England, 851st highest in the UK). The summit of Shining Tor is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point. Shining Tor is the highest point in the county of Cheshire.

Completing this walk will also take you to the top of Cats Tor at 522m (1713ft). Cats Tor is also known as an English Dewey (134th highest in England, 305th in England & Wales)

National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:

Part of this walk follows a section of The Midshires Way, a 362km (225 miles) linear footpath connecting Hampton Wainhill near Bledlow in Buckinghamshire, England with Stockport in Greater Manchester, England. The Midshires Way is waymarked by named posts. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Midshires Way.

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You can find more walks near this one on these unique free-to-access Interactive Walk Planning Maps: (click/TAP to select)

1:25,000 scale OS Explorer Map (the ones with orange/yellow covers):

1:50,000 scale OS Landranger Map (the ones with pink/magenta covers):

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