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309 Saturday 14th March 2026 Broadbottom to Marple and Etherow Country Park

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 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...