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Route outline for walk ch170:

Ackers Crossing  -  The Macclesfield Canal  -  The Cheshire Ring Canal Walk  -  Little Moreton Hall  -  Boarded Barn Farm  -  Rode Mill  -  Claphatches  -  Scholar Green  -  Mount Pleasant  -  Mow Cop (Old Man of Mow)  -  The Gritstone Trail  -  The Staffordshire Way  -  The South Cheshire Way  -  Quarry Wood  -  Hanging Wood  -  Roe Park  -  Ackers Crossing

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Peaks, Summits and Tops reached on this walk:

0 English Mountains

0 Wainwrights

0 English Nuttalls

0 English Deweys

0 Wainwright Outlying Fells

0 Marilyns

1 Bridget

Peak Bagging Statistics for this walk:

The highest point of this walk is Mow Cop (Old Man of Mow) at 335m (1099ft). Mow Cop (Old Man of Mow) is known as an English Bridget. The summit of Mow Cop (Old Man of Mow) is marked by an Ordnance Survey Trig Point.

National Trails & Long Paths included on this walk:

Part of this walk follows a section of The Cheshire Ring Canal Walk, a 158km (98 miles) circular footpath starting and finishing in Marple in Greater Manchester, England.

The canals that form the Cheshire Ring Canal Walk are (anticlockwise from Marple): The Peak Forest Canal, The Ashton and Rochdale Canals to Castlefield, Manchester, The Bridgewater Canal to Preston Brook, The Trent and Mersey Canal to Hardings Wood Junction near Kidsgrove and The Macclesfield Canal back to Marple.

The Cheshire Ring Canal Walk is waymarked by a bridge & barge motif. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Cheshire Ring Canal Walk.

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Part of this walk also follows a section of The Gritstone Trail, a 56km (35 miles) linear footpath connecting Disley in Cheshire, England with Kidsgrove in Staffordshire, England. The Gritstone Trail is waymarked by a black boot and a yellow G. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Gritstone Trail.

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Part of this walk also follows a section of The South Cheshire Way, a 53km (33 miles) linear footpath connecting Mow Cop in Cheshire, England with Grindley Brook in Staffordshire, England. The South Cheshire Way is waymarked by by the letters SCW. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The South Cheshire Way.

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Part of this walk also follows a section of The Staffordshire Way, a 153km (95 miles) linear footpath connecting Mow Cop in Cheshire, England with Kinver Edge in Staffordshire, England. The Staffordshire Way is waymarked by a knotted rope motif. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The Staffordshire Way.

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