Kidsgrove – Biddulph Grange
Walk from Kidsgrove to the unique Grade One listed Biddulph Grange garden and country park via Mow Cop and Biddulph town centre. Continue reading Kidsgrove – Biddulph Grange
Category: Staffordshire
Waterhouses – Hulme End
Walk along the Manifold Way, a highly significant former light railway route along the River Hamps and River Manifold limestone gorges in the Staffordshire Peak District, from Waterhouses to Hulme End. Continue reading Waterhouses – Hulme End
Wombourne – Sedgley
Walk across the south west Staffordshire countryside from Wombourne via the unusual survivial that is Penn Common, up the Midlands Watershed Ridge to the Black Country town of Sedgley. Continue reading Wombourne – Sedgley
Stone – Stafford
Walk from Stone railway station south through the mid-Staffordshire countryside, and across the unusual surviving Stafford Common, a town common, to Stafford town centre. Continue reading Stone – Stafford
Walsall – Cannock
Walk from the centre of Walsall into former mining country along the McClean Way greenway, and across the remarkable surivivals that are Pelsall and Pelsall North Common, before crossing the Staffordshire countryside to reach Cannock. Continue reading Walsall – Cannock
Dudley – Gornal
Highly varied mixed urban, suburban and exurban walk from the centre of the Black Country town of Dudley to Barrow Hill lying between the edges of the suburban villages of Pensnett and Gornal. Continue reading Dudley – Gornal
Rushton Spencer – Flash
Walk to Lud’s Church in the Staffordshire Peak District from Rushton Spencer to Flash, Britian’s highest village, along the River Dane valley. Continue reading Rushton Spencer – Flash
Ashbourne – Ilam Park
Walk from the Derbyshire market town of Ashbourne to the picturesque, deeply gothic, Ilam Park in the Staffordshire Peak District situated on the River Manifold near where it joins the River Dove. Continue reading Ashbourne – Ilam Park
Middle Mayfield – Thorpe
This walk from Middle Mayfield climbs up to the ridge which the Limestone Way runs along towards the Peak District National Park before crossing the River Dove to reach Thorpe and Thorpe Cloud. Continue reading Middle Mayfield – Thorpe
Kidsgrove – Biddulph
Walk from Kidsgrove to Biddulph via Mow Cop the village in two counties (Staffordshire and Cheshire) that stands high up on a gritstone ridge overlooked by the famed Mow Cop Castle folly. Continue reading Kidsgrove – Biddulph