Hazel GroveMarple

Hazmar three
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By nightauk on 28 Jul 2021


Distance

8km/5mi

Ascent

85m

Descent

107m

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Description

Route HazMar 3 uses the path alongside Chester Road Allotments (photo 1) and quiet streets (including a car park, photo 2) to cross the A6 and A627 at pedestrian facilities and enter Torkington Park (photo 3), which has Pedestrian/Cycle shared paths.
Leaving the park (photo 4) into a residential area we take a footpath (sign missing), at first narrow then widening under the New Mills Cheadle Branch Line tunnels (photo 5) into woodland to access the pleasant road to Hazel Grove Golf Club (photo 6, looking back along the path). Approaching the club house, signs warn to beware of golf balls from the right (photo 7).
Outside the club house the junction of 3 public footpaths is signposted (photo 8). Through the car park the signposted path to Middlewood Way crosses two fairways before entering woods.
Leaving the golf course is a style and footpath along a field boundary then a style onto Threaphurst Lane (photo 9, no signpost) a designated “Quiet Lane”. Almost opposite is a bridleway to the Middlewood Way (photo 10, no signpost and the entrance appears to have been designed to look like a private property). The lane/bridleway is first tarmac then gravel/earth).
Middlewood Way (NCN 55) is broad, mainly gravel/packed earth (photo 11).
We remain off-road, via a style and over the footpath across Marple Golf Course through woodland and across several fairways with appropriate warning signs (photo 12 looking back - this footpath is used daily), to access the Macclesfield Canal towpath.
A snake bridge allows the towpath to cross over the canal at the Ring O’Bells PH just before the confluence with the Peak Forest Canal (photo 13) at Marple canal basin.
Continue on the pavement down the beginning of the Marple lock flight at Lockside, through the Horse Tunnel (photo 14, under the B6101) alongside Marple Memorial Park and more locks to Brabyns Brow (A626) (photo 15 looking back from the road) and descend to the railway station

Route HazMar 3 uses the path alongside Chester Road Allotments (photo 1) and quiet streets (including a car park, photo 2) to cross the A6 and A627 at pedestrian facilities and enter Torkington Park (photo 3), which has Pedestrian/Cycle shared paths.
Leaving the park (photo 4) into a residential area we take a footpath (sign missing), at first narrow then widening under the New Mills Cheadle Branch Line tunnels (photo 5) into woodland to access the pleasant road to Hazel Grove Golf Club (photo 6, looking back along the path). Approaching the club house, signs warn to beware of golf balls from the right (photo 7).
Outside the club house the junction of 3 public footpaths is signposted (photo 8). Through the car park the signposted path to Middlewood Way crosses two fairways before entering woods.
Leaving the golf course is a style and footpath along a field boundary then a style onto Threaphurst Lane (photo 9, no signpost) a designated “Quiet Lane”. Almost opposite is a bridleway to the Middlewood Way (photo 10, no signpost and the entrance appears to have been designed to look like a private property). The lane/bridleway is first tarmac then gravel/earth).
Middlewood Way (NCN 55) is broad, mainly gravel/packed earth (photo 11).
We remain off-road, via a style and over the footpath across Marple Golf Course through woodland and across several fairways with appropriate warning signs (photo 12 looking back - this footpath is used daily), to access the Macclesfield Canal towpath.
A snake bridge allows the towpath to cross over the canal at the Ring O’Bells PH just before the confluence with the Peak Forest Canal (photo 13) at Marple canal basin.
Continue on the pavement down the beginning of the Marple lock flight at Lockside, through the Horse Tunnel (photo 14, under the B6101) alongside Marple Memorial Park and more locks to Brabyns Brow (A626) (photo 15 looking back from the road) and descend to the railway station

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Hazel Grove
Grid Ref SJ9198386751
Lat / Lon 53.37757° / -2.12197°
Easting / Northing 391,983E / 386,751N
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Marple
Grid Ref SJ9630589327
Lat / Lon 53.40077° / -2.05704°
Easting / Northing 396,305E / 389,327N
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Lauren G

02 Jun 2022 Spring

Thanks very much to Nightauk for the detailed description and photos. The route is pleasant and quiet, and paved in large parts: it can be divided more or less into 'Torkington Park, cross golf course, Middlewood Way, cross golf course, towpath'.

I'm not necessarily a fan of using golf course footpaths, as they tend to be indifferently maintained and there's always the risk of a ball to the head. These are about as you'd expect: the paths are narrow, the nettles are 5 foot high this time of year, and the stiles are wobbly. But it's certainly preferable to using Torkington Road.

As noted on the description to Hazmar 2, it is impossible to access some of the other footpaths we might like to use in this area due to landowner interference. So I would recommend this option as the main Hazmar route.

Much more enjoyable are the Middlewood Way section (broad and paved, with occasional views across fields) and the towpath section, where the casual walker can admire the moored narrowboats and the pretty back gardens which slope down to the canal. Best narrowboat name of the day goes to 'No'orseman'.


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