About "Walks Plus"
This includes walks and general articles from ECR members. Further contributions are welcome - send them to the .
Self-Guided Walks
Got a favourite walk? Send it to us so that it can be featured on this site! For each walk, all we need is the text, a couple of photographs and a simple map - we'll do the rest.
Graham's Favourite Walks
Click on the walk names to download these two walks as PDFs:
Favourite Walk 1 - Bollington, Ingersley & Swancoe
Favourite Walk 2 - Rambling round the runways
East Cheshire Paths Website
Our group has also devised a selection of six self-guided walks in the East Cheshire area. The walks are based on:
- Danebridge
- Tegg's Nose
- Wildboarclough
- Todd Brook
- Bollington
- Shining Tor
These can be downloaded from the East Cheshire Paths site.
Mapping
How do I use the Cheshire East digital map? (Grenham Ireland, Footpath Officer)
I think we are very lucky in Cheshire in having an excellent digital map available via the Cheshire East website. I make constant use of this map to print the footpaths in an area to plan a walk, to use detailed maps to help in my footpath inspection work or just to indentify a footpath number. For those of you not familiar with the map, or put off by the complexity of its appearance, here is an introductory guide to get you started. I would be grateful for any feedback - you can contact me via footpaths@ramblerseastcheshire.org.uk
How do I find the walk start point? (June Mabon, based on ideas from Roger Fielding)
For many of us who enjoy walking with a group, it can be a bit daunting to find your way to a far-flung parking spot. Yet one of the attractions of walking with a group is that it offers safe and varied walking opportunities off the beaten track and away from our immediate neighbourhood. Purists, with a library of maps, blessed with map reading skills and confident when driving on unnumbered country lanes, may prefer to find their own way to a walk start point. The rest of us, though, are accustomed to getting help from one of the web-based mapping systems like Multimap or to using our car satellite navigation system (Sat Nav) to guide us somewhere. This article is written for "the rest of us" and it explains how we can reliably use systems like Multimap or our car Sat Nav system to find our way to the start point of a weekend or midweek walk.
To read the rest of the article, click to download the PDF:
Find start point