273 Saturday 28th June 2025 Walk : Denshaw to Greenfield

 I was too ill to do anything the week before but was well  enough to choose a continuation of  our  station-to-station walk. We invited our friend  Philip along for this one.

We picked up some provisions from Tesco in Bury then drove on to Rochdale, picking up Philip from his house. We then drove to Denshaw, parking on a reidential street.

We  started following what is the Tame Valley Way - though it's not very well waymarked- alongside  the  infant river Tame towards Delph. The scenery in the flood plain was very pleasant


 

There  was  a  steep  pull  out  of  the  valley at Linfitts but compensation in a stunning view  over  Delph to  Castleshaw  and  Millstone Edge.


After that, we were ready for some lunch  at  the  Albion Farm tea room. I  made  the  wrong  selection from  the menu but Simon  and  Philip were happy  with  their  choices.


On  the  final part of the walk,  I  was  too  preoccupied with  getting  lost  and  climbing  over  walls  to  take  photographs and  we  ended up some way off my  intended  route, Fortunately  there  was  still a fairly easy way to  reach Greenfield Station from the opposite  direction but I  still  felt  embarrassed about it. We  had  to wait a bit for the  bus so  went  in  The  Railway Inn. We  then managed to get on the wrong  bus and  ended up in Stalybridge  so had to get a taxi back to Denshaw. Still, it was a bit of an adventure.

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