Events in Rochdale - Nature

Moderate 8.5 mile walk (Packed lunch advised).

By car take A58 Halifax Rd. At end of dual carriage way turn left at Spring Hill tavern PH, thro Wardle village, up cobbled track to car park. By bus use 456 or 458 from Rochdale.

Moderate 5 mile walk (Packed lunch advised).

Meet at 12.15 or at 1:00pm on Mytholmroyd Community Centre car park, GR SE 011 260. Take A58 to Blackstone Edge, left on B6138 to Mytholmroyd, left on A646 (signed Hebden Bridge). First left opposite the Post Office onto Caldene Ave, left into car park (honesty box).

Linear walk from Heywood to Bury and return by ELR train or 471 bus.

Moderate 7 mile walk (Packed lunch advised).

Hard 9 mile walk (Packed lunch advised).

Meet at 9:45am in front of Rochdale Town Hall to arrange car sharing or at 10:30am on Mytholmroyd Community Centre car park, GR SE 011 260. Take A58 to Blackstone Edge, left on B6138 to Mytholmroyd, left on A646 (signed Hebden Bridge). First left opposite the Post Office onto Caldene Ave, left into car park (honesty box).

Easy to Moderate 7 mile walk (Packed lunch advised).

Moderate 6.5 mile walk (Packed lunch advised).

Meet at 10:30 am in the cul de sac at the bottom of old Manchester Rd to arrange car sharing or at 11:00am at the junction of Thornham Lane and Manchester Rd, A664, Slattocks. GR SD 886 086. From Rochdale towards Middleton for 3.5miles or 2miles from Middleton, both on the A664. No 17 bus serves both towns.

Easy to Modorate 6 mile walk (Packed lunch advised).

Meet at 11:00am in front of Rochdale Town Hall to arrange car sharing or at 12:00 at Barley picnic site, GR SD 823 403. From Rochdale, take A680 to Edenfield, then A56, and M65 (East) to Jtn 13. At Barrowford, turn left off A682 onto a minor Rd to Barley.

Moderate 9 mile walk (Packed lunch advised).

Meet at 9:45 am in the cul de sac at the bottom of old Manchester Rd to arrange car sharing or at Baitings Dam at 10:45 am . Take A58 Halifax Rd thro Littleborough, past the White House PH. Baitings reservoir is to the right of the road before Ripponden. When driving alongside the reservoir, there are trees on the right, and then 50yds past a large house on the left, there is the concealed entrance to the car park on the right.