309 Saturday 14th March 2026 Broadbottom to Marple and Etherow Country Park
With a big improvement in the weather, I decided to continue the station to station walk onwards from Broadbottom but because we needed to visit a country park for our YouTube schedule, I decided to divert from the most obvious route to take in Etherow Country Park and end the walk at Marple rather than Strines. We caught the Hadfield train from Piccadilly. We alighted at Broadbottom noting some interesting displays in the station building that hadn't been accessible on our previous visit. The route became interesting and scenic almost straight away as we passed the Hodge Lane Dye Vats. We soon made the acquaintance of the river Etherow. We admired seventeenth-century Botham...