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Route outline for walk ch207:

Nelson Pit Visitors Centre  -  Higher Poynton  -  The Macclesfield Canal  -  The Cheshire Ring Canal Walk  -  Wood Lanes  -  Adlington Basin  -  Lockgate Farm  -  The North Cheshire Way  -  Harrop Brow  -  Birchencliff Farm  -  Keeper's Cottage  -  Dale Top  -  Sponds Moor  -  The Gritstone Trail  -  Sponds Hill  -  Bowstonegate Farm  -  Bow Stones  -  Higher Moor  -  Lyme Park Country Park  -  Lantern Wood  -  The Cage  -  Lyme Hall  -  Fallow Deer Park  -  The Lime Avenue  -  Lyme Park Car Park  -  Windgather Farm  -  Haresteads Farm  -  Nelson Pit Visitors Centre  -  Higher Poynton.

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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 Sponds Hill at 410m (1346ft). Sponds Hill is known as an English Bridget. The summit of Sponds Hill 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 North Cheshire Way, a 113km (70 miles) linear footpath connecting Hooton Station in Cheshire, with Disley Station in Cheshire, England. The North Cheshire Way is waymarked by the letter NCW. For more walks that include a section of this trail see The North Cheshire Way.

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