Manchester Pedestrian Club


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Special for 2024

Walking the Manchester Ringway stages
one stage per month

 

   

The Hope Valley 2020
(c) Geoff Orsler


Walk each Saturday, often on the hills around Manchester, followed by refreshment in a nearby venue.

Also occasional Festival Weekends and weekday walks.

More than 5000 walks organised since founded 1903.

Come and Join Us!

 
Coming up Shutlingsloe in the sun, 2018.
Coming up Shutlingsloe in the mist, 2019.
 

Coming up Shutlingsloe - in sun and in mist. (c) Geoff Orsler 2018, Andrew Basden 2019


Contents of MPC Website

See Photographs of earlier walks, sent in by members during the 2020 lockdown.


Walking with the MPC

Walks are organised for most Saturdays of the year in locations easily reached from Manchester - in the Pennines, Peak District, Cheshire, North Wales, etc. Most weeks there are two walks:

Walks Planned for The Coming Year

Every week there is a walk at Dunham Park, plus another usually longer walk.

Details may be found in Walks for 2024.

Walk Date Name Region (a) Length, Grade (a)
5525 6 Jan Dunham S 4-5m, easy
5526 13 Jan (a) Manchester Ringway, Stage 1,2
(b) Dunham
C 14m (7+7)
5527 20 Jan (a) Manchester Ringway, Stage 19
(b) Dunham
W 9m
5528 27 Jan (a) Hayfield
(b) Dunham
E 7m hilly
5529 3 Feb (a) -
(b) Dunham
5530 10 Feb (a) Tintwistle
(b) Dunham
E 7m
5531 17 Feb (a) Cown Edge (cancelled)
(b) Dunham
8m
5532 24 Feb (a) GM Ringway, stage 3. Didsbury to Bramhall
(b) Dunham
S 7m
5533 2 Mar (a) Saddleworth byways
(b) Dunham
NE
5534 9 Mar (a) Rishworth: Booth Wood & Scammonden reservoirs
(b) Dunham
N 8m
5535 16 Mar (a) Leadmill and Abney Moor
(b) Dunham
SE 9m
5536 23 Mar (a) Frodsham
(b) Dunham
W 8m
5537 30 Mar (a) Ramsbottom-Irwell valley
(b) Dunham
N 7m
5538 6 Apr (a) Bamford Edge
(b) Dunham
SE 8m
5539 13 Apr (a) Standedge
(b) Dunham
NE 5-7m
5540 20 Apr (a) Altrincham-Lymm Circular
(b) Dunham
W 9m flat
5541 27 Apr (a) Manchester Ringway Stage 4
(b) Dunham
SW 7.5m
5542 4 May Dunham S
5543 11 May Dunham S
5544 18 May Dunham S
5545 25 May Memorial Plaque Donation Lunch NE
5546 1 Jun Dunham
5547 8 Jun Dunham SE
5548 15 Jun Dunham
5549 22 Jun (a) Edale to Chinley
(b) Dunham
S 7m
5550 29 Jun (a) Bradwell Circular
(b) Dunham
S 8m
5551 6 Jul Dunham
5552 13 Jul (a) Saddleworth
(b) Dunham
N 6-7m
5553 20 Jul (a) Whaley Bridge
(b) Dunham
SE 9m hilly
5554 27 Jul (a) Holcombe Moor
(b) Dunham
N 7-8m
5555 3 Aug (a) Marbury, Anderton W 5m
10 Aug -
17 Aug -
5556 24 Aug (a) Styal Woods
(b) Dunham
S 8m
5557 31 Aug Dunham
7 Sep -
14 Sep -
5558 21 Sep (a) Tockholes, Darwen
(b) Dunham
N 7m
5559 28 Sep (a) Anglezarke --* New walk *--
(b) Dunham
N 7m
5560 5 Oct Dunham S 5m
5561 12 Oct (a) Longdendale
(b) Dunham
E 7m flat
5562 19 Oct (a) Roaches
(b) Dunham
S 7.5m
5563 26 Oct Dunham S 5m
5564 2 Nov (a) Newhey and Reservoirs
(b) Dunham
N 8m hilly
5565 9 Nov (a) Marsden
(b) Dunham
NE 7m, some ascent
5566 16 Nov (a) Transpennine Trail, Lymm
(b) Dunham
S 12m
5567 23 Nov (a) Stretford to Manchester (Ringway)
(b) Dunham
C 7.5m
5568 30 Nov Dunham
7 Dec AGM

To join a walk:

It is a condition of joining a walk that participants understand and agree to abide by the rules for walks contained on the page, Walking with the MPC.


  Group at Dobcross, 2017. (c) Geoff Orsler  

We even enjoy the wet! Group at Dobcross. (c) Geoff Orsler 2017


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