Walking in and around Pott Shrigley

Walking in Pott Shrigley

Most Pott Shrigley residents value its rural setting and many of them – and many visitors –  also use and greatly appreciate the wide variety of its long established network of footpaths .These range from short to long, from flat and easy to steep and strenuous, and from sheltered green fields to rough  open moorland. The climbs to the high points in the parish, such as Dale Top above Keepers Cottage, or above Moorside Quarry, offer lengthy vistas across the Cheshire Plain, to the elegant Shutlingsloe in the South, or to the Pennine hills including Kinder Scout and Bleaklow.

Pott Shrigley parish has twenty two footpaths and two bridleways, far too many to summarise here. However, In addition to the Ordnance Survey maps, these are shown in greater detail in the Parish Council’s Pott Shrigley footpath map, first published in 2008, and subsequently re-printed to meet heavy demand. Priced at just £1 this also describes six suggested circular routes – from different start points, ranging in length from 2 to 7 miles. Copies can be obtained from Bollington Post Office, The Bridgend Centre and The Discovery Centre, both in Bollington.  Neighbouring parishes, such as Adlington, Poynton, Rainow and Bollington offer similar publications, so walkers can design walks in the area as a whole.

As well as reports directly from the Parish Council, two locally based charities (The Ramblers – East Cheshire group and the Peak and Northern Footpaths Society) have volunteer footpath inspectors who check the paths each year and report faults, such as obstructions, to the local authority’s Public Rights of Way Unit. Members of the public are also invited to do this :
email: prow@cheshireeast.gov.uk or telephone 01270 686186