241 Sunday 3rd November 2024 Walk : Bury to Norden
This was my choice, a follow up to a walk we did on the August Bank Holiday. The idea is to use OS maps to trek a route between the outlying stations in Greater Mancheser. In August we walked from Bromley Cross to Bury. The next stage was Bury to Littleborough. I knew we didn't have enough daylight for that but knew it crossed a number of bus routes.
We drove to Burrs Country Park to start the walk. Simon was hungry so we had lunch there. Just after we had got past the station we heard a train whistle so we stopped to get a good picture.
We then crossed a brook.
After that it was a steep climb out of the Irwell Valley to Limefield. After a short streth of road walking we climbed up out of Limefield towards the M66 . There was a wonderful view back across to Holcombe Tower.
We crossed the motorway and headed alongside Wolmersley Golf Course We had a drink stop at Birtle then climbed a lane for a good view over to Knowl Hill and Rochdale.
We then took a narrow , slightly hairy path along the top edge of Ashworth Valley. We went down to the valley bottom but went badly awry at a junction and started going back on ourselves up the valley. After some confusion we bumped into a nice lady who got us back on track and we finished in Norden, just in time to carch a bus into Rochdale. We took one on to Bury then finished walking back to the car in the dark.




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