Rochdale Way

The Rochdale Way is a circular 45-mile (72 km) walking route around the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, which takes in the best scenery and interesting buildings of the area.

Rochdale Way (West Side)

Rochdale Canal Rochdale Canal A6033 Reddyshore Scout Gate Crook Moor Cuckoo Hill Watergrove Reservoir Brown Wardle Hill Healey Dell Top of Leach Prickshaw Rooley Moor Road Naden Reservoirs Dixon's Brow Knowl Hill A680 Owd Betts Alternative Route Ashworth Moor Reservoir Cheesden Valley Naden Valley Alternative Route Simpson Clough B6222 River Roch Queen's Park A58 Heywood Chamber House Farm East Lancashire Railway A6046 M62 Motorway A6046 Birch Bowlee A576 Rhodes

Rochdale Way (East Side)

Pennine Way Warland Reservoir Light Hazzles Reservoir Blackstone Edge Reservoir A58 The White House Aiggin Stone Alternative route Roman Road Robin Hood's Bed Lydgate Blackstone Edge Whittaker Hollingworth Lake Rakewood Viaduct M62 motorway Longden End Brook A672 Windy Hill Axle Tree Edge White Hill Pennine Way A640 Rapes Highway Readycon Dean Reservoir Norman Hill Reservoir A672 Alternative Route Piethorne Reservoir Hanging Lees Reservoir Kitcliffe Reservoir Ogden Reservoir Alternative Route A663 Newhey Jubilee Oldham Way Alternative Route B6194 Burnage A671 Summit Tandle Hill A627M Thornham Fold A664 Slattocks A644 Slattocks Rochdale Canal Calder Valley line A664 Slattocks Hopwood Hall A664 A576 Middleton Alkrington Hall

Areas covered include the following:

• Hollingworth Lake
• Blackstone Edge on the Pennine Way
• Watergrove Reservoir
• Healey Dell
• Knowl Hill
• Naden Valley
• Queen's Park, Heywood
• Rhodes
• Alkrington
• Middleton
• Hopwood
• Tandle Hill
• Piethorne Valley

Bibliography

The Rochdale Way by Richard Catlow, John Cole and Martin Riley