Hazmar three

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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