Good Days Out with South Manchester CTC
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Where do you want to go today?
Not always easy to decide is it? And once you have decided where to go, you won't want to waste any time getting out of the suburbs, but neither will you want to bash down 'A' roads. Use these routes to get you out into the countryside quickly and quietly. They then take you on to lunch (sometimes in the next county!). And from lunch to tea, finally returning back to the starting point. Just follow the step-by-step instructions below.
How to plan a run
Step 1. You've got to start somewhere. Mostly we start from Cheadle Green for Cheshire runs, or Hazel Grove for Derbyshire. Cheshire is mostly flat, Derbyshire (or at least our bit) is mostly hilly. Print these instructions, and then take your pick, by following one of the hyperlinks above.
Step 2. CTC stands for Café-to-Café, at least in our section anyway. Select an elevenses stop from those on offer, and then choose between any alternative route offered. Print it. You now have a set of directions taking you out of the city, resting after about an hour-and-a-half for tea and cake(s). Position yourself at those tea and cakes, by following the hyperlink.
Step 3. Choose one of the lunch spots listed (and print out the route to it). Sometimes the geography determines the destination, and sometimes the destination justifies a fair degree of effort. Whatever your choice, position yourself there by following the hyperlink.
Step 4. Choose a tea stop. Sometimes we don't stop for tea in winter, but it's handy to at least pass a place of refuge and comfort in case the heavens open. (And it's the way that this guide is structured!) Once again, print out a route, and move briskly on by following the hyperlink.
Step 5. Finally pick (and print) a route back to the start, but covering different gound than the outward journey.
You should now have a complete itinerary, consisting of four parts. If you were unlucky, your route stopped in mid-air, with no obvious way to continue. This is not a fault with these instructions, or with you, but just means we haven't found a decent route. We'll be working on it - next Sunday!
Table of Contents
- Routes from:
- Albert Square,
- Alderley Edge,
- Allgreave,
- Anderton,
- Astbury,
- Birkin,
- Bottom-of-the-Oven,
- Bretton,
- Broken Cross,
- Broomedge,
- Brownlow,
- Buxton,
- Chapel-en-le-Frith,
- Cheadle Green,
- Chelford,
- Chester,
- Cockyard,
- Comberbach,
- Crowdecote,
- Crown Point,
- Crumpsall,
- Daisy Nook,
- Daresbury,
- Debdale Park,
- Dunford Bridge,
- Dunham Massey,
- Eyam,
- Flash,
- Glazebrook,
- Glossop,
- Goostrey,
- Goyt Valley,
- Grindleford,
- Hartington,
- Hatchmere,
- Haworth,
- Hayfield,
- Hazel Grove,
- Henbury,
- Higher Hurdsfield,
- High Legh,
- Hinchcliffe Mill,
- Hollingworth Lake,
- Holmes Chapel,
- Knutsford,
- Langsett,
- Lindow Moss,
- Littleborough,
- Longnor,
- Lyme Park,
- Macclesfield,
- Malpas,
- Marton,
- Meerbrook,
- Middlewich,
- Miller's Dale,
- Mobberley,
- Monk's Heath,
- Monyash,
- Myerscough Smithy,
- New Mills,
- Newchurch in Pendle,
- Ollerton,
- Over Haddon,
- Parsley Hay,
- Pott Shrigley,
- Rainow,
- Ramsbottom,
- Rawtenstall,
- Ribchester,
- Rishworth,
- Runcorn,
- Rushton Spencer,
- Slackhall,
- Slattocks,
- Sowerby Bridge,
- Sparklow,
- Stockport,
- Tatton Park,
- Tideswell,
- Timbersbrook,
- Trap St,
- Uppermill,
- Whaley Bridge,
- Whalley,
- Wildboarclough,
- Wood Lanes,
- Wormhill,
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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- Appendices:
- Cheshire Cycleway,
- Excursions,
- HTML Markup,
- Illustrations,
- Links,
- Scanning Images,
- Scrapbook,
- Template,
- Index of Routes
For those of you who like to work backwards from lunch (or wherever) ...
- Routes to:
- Alderley Edge,
- Allgreave,
- Alstonefield,
- Anderton,
- Astbury,
- Birkin,
- Bottom-of-the-Oven,
- Bretton,
- Broadbottom,
- Broken Cross,
- Broomedge,
- Brownlow,
- Buxton,
- Buxworth,
- Chapel-en-le-Frith,
- Cheadle Green,
- Chelford,
- Chester,
- Cockyard,
- Comberbach,
- Combs,
- Crowdecote,
- Crown Point,
- Daisy Nook,
- Daresbury,
- Denshaw,
- Didsbury,
- Dunford Bridge,
- Dunham Massey,
- Entwistle,
- Eyam,
- Flash,
- Glazebrook,
- Glossop,
- Goostrey,
- Goyt Valley,
- Grappenhall,
- Great Budworth,
- Great Hucklow,
- Hartington,
- Hassall Green,
- Hatchmere,
- Hathersage,
- Haworth,
- Hayfield,
- Hazel Grove,
- Hebden Bridge,
- Henbury,
- Higher Hurdsfield,
- Higher Poynton,
- High Legh,
- Hinchcliffe Mill,
- Hollingworth Lake,
- Holmes Chapel,
- Hope,
- Knutsford,
- Langsett,
- Lindow Moss,
- Longnor,
- Lyme Park,
- Macclesfield,
- Malpas,
- Marple Bridge,
- Marton,
- Meerbrook,
- Miller's Dale,
- Mobberley,
- Monk's Heath,
- Monyash,
- New Mills,
- Newchurch in Pendle,
- Ollerton,
- Over Haddon,
- Pott Shrigley,
- Rainow,
- Ramsbottom,
- Ribchester,
- Rishworth,
- Rivington,
- Runcorn,
- Rushton Spencer,
- Slackhall,
- Slattocks,
- Sowerby Bridge,
- Sparklow,
- Sproston Green,
- Stockport,
- Tatton Park,
- Tideswell,
- Timbersbrook,
- Trap St,
- Uppermill,
- Whaley Bridge,
- Whalley,
- Wildboarclough,
- Wood Lanes,
- Wormhill,
- York,
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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