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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Marple and New Mills.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Marple and New Mills.
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Status
This route has been reviewed by 3 people.
This route has been flagged (2 times) for reasons relating to access.
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Information
Route status - Live
Reviews - 3
Average rating -
Is this route good enough? - Yes (1) No (2)
Problems reported - Access (2)
Downloads - 5
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Marple
Grid Ref
SJ9630589327
Lat / Lon
53.40077° / -2.05704°
Easting / Northing
396,305E / 389,327N
What3Words
engineers.employ.straws
New Mills
Grid Ref
SJ9994185403
Lat / Lon
53.36552° / -2.00233°
Easting / Northing
399,942E / 385,404N
What3Words
toads.salon.ombudsman
Marpnew One's land is
Marple | |
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Grid Ref | SJ9630589327 |
Lat / Lon | 53.40077° / -2.05704° |
Easting / Northing | 396,305E / 389,327N |
What3Words | engineers.employ.straws |
New Mills | |
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Grid Ref | SJ9994185403 |
Lat / Lon | 53.36552° / -2.00233° |
Easting / Northing | 399,942E / 385,404N |
What3Words | toads.salon.ombudsman |
Other agricultural land | 20.7% |
Pasture | 17.1% |
Urban | 30.9% |
Woods | 31.4% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
reviews
Nightauk
22 Jun 2021This route should be shortened to reduce the percentage of busy roads used and improve access - see photo.
Stephen Slater
18 Jun 2021Route uses pavement by very busy road from Marple station to FP East from Strines Rd B6102 at SJ 96409 88158. A much preferable alternative is to ascend A626 to Peak Forest Canal and follow towpath S to towpath bridge across canal at SJ 96383 88135. A short flight of steps leads from the canal to A6102 directly opposite FP to Bottoms Bridge. The entire section from Peak Forest Canal to Strines Rd and then FP78Marple is not suitable for wheelchair use do to flight of steps and very steep gradient.
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Nightauk
22 Jun 2021The above route adds yet more steps to the access to Bottoms Bridge and Lakes Rd, as well as additional time on the very busy A626. Why not simply turn left onto Arkwright Rd (B6101), which is quieter, and then turn left at SJ 96301 88808 down Faywood Drive? This is the direct route and it has a pavement. I walk/cycle it myself. Better still use Marpnew 6 through Marple Bridge?
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Nightauk
10 Jun 20211. Marpnew one when leaving Marple Station (or the only accommodation in Marple and Marple Bridge) searches out and follows the Goyt Way slavishly and does not access the off-road route directly. It goes straight past the Faywood Drive direct, easy access it Lakes Road.
2. Part of the above section of the Goyt Way route used by Marpnew one uses a path muddy in wet weather, a long, steep flight of steps with a bollard barrier to access the footbridge over the railway and a narrow steep descent to Lakes Road.
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