Storom four

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Leaving Stockport Station and climbing up this section is all pavement on a busy road, crossing Wellington Road South and Edward Street. Continue towards Woodbank Ind est and Pear Mill towards Woodbank Memorial Park and Vernon Park. Nice walk through the park until you get to Bredbury Hall and Country Club, It was a really hot sunny day and the walk was nice with some shade.
Through the fields crossing the River Goyt. Down Berrycroft and direct pavement walking into Romiley village.
Mixed access for wheelchairs or prams but plenty of access on a bicycle.

A good ,reasonably direct route.Some sections do not exactly show on the os map.Although a very urban walk the route avoids too many busy roads,There a number of interesting buildings and parks on route,no obstructions or issues.

A bit of pavement pacing through Romiley, including pedestrian lights at the main crossroads, led to a ginnel with a cycle barrier at the end, then on through Shakespeare Road Play Area, where the footpaths on the ground differ from those on the OS Map. There were some muddy paths, boardwalk and a good cycle track which eventually took us past an electricity sub-station and over the River Goyt on a newish bridge. This doesn’t yet show on the OS Map, and from here there are good views of the appropriately named Pear Mill. I used to live near here and probably bored my friends with tales of 30 years ago!
There were good but sometimes a steep footpaths up into the (also appropriately named) Woodbank Park, which was quite busy with families getting some fresh air. There were benches here.
The pavement pounding for the last section into Stockport was made interesting by several buildings of significance, but the area around the station itself was a bit messy with several big new developments in progress.
Overall a good direct route, with a decent proportion away from roads, considering how urban it became.

Walked from Romiley to Stockport as part of a group walk. A good direct route, very enjoyable apart from the short roadside walk out of Romiley.

Leaving the meeting point at Romiley station, we cross to the south side of the road and head west along Stockport Road, past the junctions with Gorsey Brow and Barrack Lane. We reach a right turn where there is a row of shops.

Our route uses the optimistically named Field Lane, which goes through a gap in the shop buildings right of Hollywood Wines, and soon becomes a path. We turn left onto Goyt Crescent and right up Goyt Valley Road, then cross a park left and look for the steps down to the path along the bottom (there is a choice of two sets of steps). After a short distance the path forks, and we take the right branch up to Newstead Grove (the right of way goes straight on here, but the trees look pretty impenetrable on that line). A gap on the right leads us onto a wider track that we follow down to a park, where we follow the Alan Newton Way sign around the edge of a playing field, then past the electricity substation to a fairly new looking bridge over the river Goyt (noting Pear Mill, a short distance up to the right).

We cross the bridge and take the path straight on and around the left edge of an open space (or follow the locals and cut the corner). At the top of the field we take the right branch which goes up a few steps as it climbs to Woodbank Hall, which looks in need of renovation. We then follow the main path through the park to its war memorial entrance.

We go straight on along Turncroft Lane, then use pelican crossings to cross the busy St Marys Way. We go straight across the junction then turn left up Waterloo Road, which becomes Edward Street before we reach the A6 (Wellington Road South). We cross at the lights, turn right and then turn left down Railway Road to reach the meeting point outside Stockport station.

A direct route a mix of urban pavements, cuts throughs and quality cycle routes. Where possible I prefer to follow the plotting guidance for a direct route rather than a tour while trying to stay off road. A difficult challenge especially in an urban area where definitive paths can be thin on the ground. Cycle routes also like to avoid hills and traffic but that extra mile takes less time with wheels. Here we have route number four between Stockport and Romiley so you have a choice. Not perfect but as the advert says 'it does what it says on the tin'.

Some green and blue bits, some mud and steps with a steep climb from the Goyt valley. Safe road crossings generally, leaving Romiley was a bit awkward best to be on the north side of the road from Romiley station.

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