A Walkers Tale

Today I am walking the Huddersfield Narrow Canal. I had previously walked a short stretch of this canal between Stalybridge and Ashton-under-Lyne, where this  canal  merges into the Ashton and Peak Forest Canals - as part of a walk along the Peak Forest Canal to one of it's termini at Whaley Bridge . And since we are still in that phase of the year where it is very soggy underfoot, it is an easy choice to be back walking another canal , with a bit of a guarantee that it won't be too bad underfoot (at least on the sections alongside the  canal ).

Today we are setting off to walk along the Peak Forest Canal - having recently walked a short stretch of this canal as we passed through Marple on the way to meet up with the Macclesfield Canal . This one is a particularly interesting canal , since it runs along quite a varied route, that used to connect up the limestone mines in the Peak District with the urban centres around Manchester.