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Airport - Heald Green Run

Airport - Heald Green run (aka Steve's new Thursday run):-

Distance - 9 miles/15 km
Climb - 300 ft/80 m
Terrain - medium - road, flat trail, short stretches of rough ground
Short-cuts - From the airport runway return via Styal and Styal Mill

 

Route Description

From the Rugby club turn right to the end of King’s Road, cross over into Racecourse Road, and turn right into Newgate.  After 500m turn right on a footpath, cross the old tip, and climb the hill, dropping down to meet a road at Morley Green.  Cross over and take the road opposite (leads to the ‘Honey Bee’), turning left into Dooley’s Lane after about 600m.  Keep to the right of the private drive, following the footpath onto open fields, and then turn right on a footpath leading to the Holiday Inn (A538).

At the Holiday Inn cross the main A538 to reach the hotel, turn left up the approach road, and go right through a gate onto the airport footpath.  Follow the footpath alongside the runway, and onto the old Styal Road (now dead end).  About 300m along this road (before the gate) take a footpath left, and follow it to Moss Lane, turn left and follow the road all the way round to the Styal Road (B5166).  Turn left, towards the airport.

Follow the Styal Road over a railway bridge, and take a footpath on the right leading alongside the railway, and then crossing a railway bridge and straight on along a field edge.  Climb a locked gate to gain a farmyard/farm track which bends to the right around the farm buildings.  Go round the glasshouses and keep straight on following a footpath across common land.  Turn left at the end of the common land but continue in the same general direction to get to Clay Lane.

At Clay Lane turn right, and keep going straight to reach an old-people’s home on the left and join  Station Road.  Go past Styal Station to the tee-junction, turn left and then immediately cross Styal Road and follow the track (Holt’s Lane) in front of some houses, to get to the top of Styal Mill.  Options then are to go down the hill to Styal Mill and return via the woods, or to keep left across the car-park and take the top road to Twinney’s Bridge, and hence back to the Rugby Club.

Graveyard Lane Run

Graveyard Lane run:-

Distance - 8 miles/12 km
Climb - 400 ft/100 m
Terrain - medium - road, flat trail, short stretches of rough ground
Short-cuts - From Holiday Inn turn left and return via Morley Green (5 miles/8 km)

 

Route Description

Rugby Club, Twinney’s Bridge car park, turn left and take the top path to Styal Mill, take the second path next to the ‘Apprentice House’ through to the road, turn left on the road, through the gate, and follow the road/bridleway to the Holiday Inn (A538).

Cross the main road on the tunnel side of the roundabout, climb the steps, follow the path past the fire-station and over the Bollin.  Climb the short slope and follow the path alongside the runway for about 200m, then turn left over a stile.  Turn right on the road, and follow it until the third turning on the right, then turn right at the tee-junction.  After 200m turn left into Graveyard Lane, and then after 400m left onto a footpath.  Follow the footpath through the farm, over the golf-course, over fields to join a farm track

At the farm track turn right, and follow the track to a cross-roads of tracks, carry straight on into Newgate.  After 400m turn left onto a footpath across the old tip, turn right past the allotments to the main road (A538).  Cross the road and return via King’s Road

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