There are a couple of points where you can cut across a park As you approach Rochdale, the route takes you through a park rather than along the road (photo) or where it’s actually better to stick to the road....

Alison Andrews

If you’re not daunted by sketchy paths, it’s well worth the effort, with farm buildings and cattle ponds serving as useful landmarks. There are also spots where the Slow Ways path diverges from more established routes, and it’s often better, or necessary, to stick to the more well-trodden paths and red marked paths....

Alison Andrews

Once up, you skirt Whitworth, pass a church and then there's some walking on agricultural stone roads. In one place it suggests there is a path but you need to follow the road....

Kristin

There are a couple of places where the path gets lost in the bog - there are some blue signs but basically the path is sketchy and you have to orient towards the farm building and wade through. There are also a couple of points the Slow Ways path tries to cut off the established paths and it is better or necessary to stick to them - see photos. One where you need to stay lower down than the SW path shows, and on the red marked path, and one (photo '2') where you need to follow the red path and can go back up Clough Road, or stick on the red path until it joins the SW again....

Kristin

After navigating that, we got into another in-between hills space, which was a little tricky to navigate as well, but a mixture of proper track roads and paths through the landscape of rolling plateau affording good views, including the high rises of Manchester in the distance....

Maria Andrews

We found it hard to find the path onto the moor and once on it, a challenge finding a path to tally with the way to hook up with the track down to Whitworth....

Maria Andrews