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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Romiley and Marple.
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This route has been reviewed by 6 people.
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Route status - Live
Reviews - 6
Average rating -
Is this route good enough? - Yes (5) No (1)
Problems reported - Safety (1)
Downloads - 11
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Grade 2: Mostly smooth and compacted surfaces, but there may be some loose gravel, muddy patches or cobbles. Access grade X: At least one stile, flight of steps or other obstacle that is highly likely to block access for wheelchair and scooter users. |
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The steepest uphill gradient West: no data
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How clear is the waymarking on the route: Unclear in places (1)
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3.0% of the route is on roads (1)
3.0% of the route is lit at night (1)
3.0% of the route is paved (1)
10.0% of the route is muddy (1)
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Start and end points
Romiley
Grid Ref
SJ9414990794
Lat / Lon
53.41394° / -2.08949°
Easting / Northing
394,149E / 390,794N
What3Words
move.loudly.slice
Marple
Grid Ref
SJ9630589327
Lat / Lon
53.40077° / -2.05704°
Easting / Northing
396,305E / 389,327N
What3Words
engineers.employ.straws
Rommar One's land is
Romiley | |
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Grid Ref | SJ9414990794 |
Lat / Lon | 53.41394° / -2.08949° |
Easting / Northing | 394,149E / 390,794N |
What3Words | move.loudly.slice |
Marple | |
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Grid Ref | SJ9630589327 |
Lat / Lon | 53.40077° / -2.05704° |
Easting / Northing | 396,305E / 389,327N |
What3Words | engineers.employ.straws |
Green urban | 28.9% |
Urban | 20.5% |
Woods | 50.5% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
reviews
Ken
19 Feb 2023This was an excellent start to a day of walking to Manchester with a group of Slow Way friends. No stiles, mostly good surfaces, some steps and safe road walking. Having cruised along the canal it was good to put the canal into the urban landscape. The aqueduct alongside the viaduct makes a great heritage site, seen again later from the train as we headed home. A short tunnel forces the towpath and our route over the top where we leave the waterside. I enjoyed seeing something still being produced at the Romiley Board Mill through which the public road and Slow Way intimately pass through but all is safe on the pavement.
Mary Oz
19 Feb 2023I really enjoyed this route!
We walked along pavement up the hill from the station at Marple and joined the Peak Forest Canal, with a good view back across the Goyt valley. After walking down past four locks, the railway tunnelled beneath the canal and emerged just before the fifth lock. After the eighth lock the canal was lower than the railway and we walked under a small viaduct, then along the canal aqueduct over the River Goyt, parallel to the viaduct over the Goyt. The canal then went through a walled cutting then into a tunnel. All quite spectacular!
The tunnel has no towpath through it, and we walked up a stepped slope and emerged onto the path to the (still functioning) paper factory, and we could just make out the other end of the canal tunnel through the woods below us.
I like a bit of industrial architecture and heritage, and I enjoyed passing the Romiley Board Mill, there was a collection of different architectural styles which appealed to me. From here it was just a short walk to Romiley Station.
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Hugh Hudson
18 Feb 2023 (edited 20 Feb 2023)Walked from Marple to Romiley. A simple, direct route. The canal section over the Marple aqueduct is spectacular and I enjoyed the road walk through the mill, and had no safety concerns at all.
Leaving the meeting point at Marple station, we head up Brabyns Brow and turn right along the Peak Forest canal towpath (were I being hypercritical, I might say that the route designer missed a trick here, as the corner can be shortened by the path around the tennis club). We follow the canal past the last few locks of the Marple flight, then cross to the left bank just before the railway bridge. The aqueduct over the Goyt is short but high and impressive (as is the railway viaduct above it), and beyond it the canal goes through a steep sided cutting. Eventually the canal goes into a tunnel and the towpath heads up steps (as others have noted there is a paved alternative but it is too steep and narrow to be much use to anyone on four wheels).
This leads up to Oakwood Road, which we follow past the imposing Romiley Board Mill building. Most of this road has a pavement but it does disappear briefly when we cross under the railway as we are entering Romiley. At Compstall Road we turn left and the station meeting point is a short stroll up the road.
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Lauren G
16 Jan 2022Followed Nightauk's small suggested modification to avoid the mill: from the Romiley end, start down Church Lane, then downhill on Chadkirk Road and through the tunnel under the canal. Bear left and shortly find a flight of steps up onto the towpath, then follow the canal east and rejoin the mapped route at Hyde Bank.
An enjoyable stroll. People not familiar with the area should note that despite being almost all towpath, this route is not flat: there's a flight of locks at the Marple end, so that part is uphill. Also note the steps mentioned by Nightauk. Although there is a narrow cobbled path alongside the steps, this is also not passable for e.g. pushchairs.
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Nightauk
24 Jul 2021This is a lovely route except that the canal is accessed via the road through the busy Romiley Board Mill, which I avoid as being hazardous, ugly and smelly. Photo 1.
It is preferable to access the Peak Forest Canal using the route signposted to Chadkirk Chapel through, pleasant suburbs and up a flight of steps to the canal.
Between Romiley and Marple, this canal has a long flight of steps with several chicanes (on the south side of Hyde Bank) so would create problems for pushchairs and mobility scooters, though cyclists manage it. Photo 2.
An alternative for pushchairs and mobility scooters would be to continue to follow the signs to Chadkirk Chapel and there join the Alan Newton Way to Marple. This would be longer as it would then involve Marple suburbs.
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SimBurt
06 May 2021The route is very straightforward and easy to follow, mainly using the towpath on the Peak Forest Canal, which apart from a couple of quite large puddles and muddy spots is generally very well surfaced. There is a step downward set of steps around 0.5km into the route, just past Hyde Bank Farm, with a narrow loosely cobbled cycle path alongside it. There are unparallel cycle barriers at four points on the steps. Apart from this the route is very accessable.
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