Kinder Trespass & Canal Walk

The Trespass Trail started in Hayfield and along the terrace where Arthur Lowe of "Dad's Army" was born.

The weather started fine for this tough walk but soon started to rain. The four of us climbed up to the point where the Kinder Trespass was held in April 1932 when over 400 hundred people participated in a mass trespass against the landowners prohibition of acess to the moor. Martin & Tom then decided to do a 4 mile longer route whilst John and I looked at the looming clouds and decided to head back the way we had come. We just arrived back in Hayfield as the heavens opened but poor Martin & Tom were absolutely drenched having been caught in the rain on the very exposed moor.



This signpost indicates the way to the Snake Inn but you would need to be very thirsty to venture that sort of distance just for a drink.

Thursday was a better forecast and we all agreed that a low level walk would be most acceptable so we started from the village of Chinley where our holiday cottage was and set out to do the Peak Forest Tramway Trail and the Peak Forest Canal. The Tramway takes you to Buxworth where it conects to the Canal. The complete walk to the town of Marple is 10 miles and at Marple the canal joins the Macclesfield canal through a series of 16 locks rising 109ft. The above photograph is the Canal Basin in Buxworth.

Although there were no locks on this canal there were plenty of small swing bridges.

Lunch and at last the sun came out although it did not last for long.

The canal basin at Marple where the 2 canals meet