This is the first section of the circular Tour Of Tameside, an alternative route to the Tameside Trail. The tour visits all 8 towns in the borough, albeit some of them only briefly.
Some parts of the route are the same as the Tameside Trail, this is unavoidable. The Tour Of Tameside is an anti-clockwise walk and keeps to the countryside or waterways and only short sections are on roads.
Section 1 starts at Park Bridge and then goes along the Hollinwood Branch Canal to Daisy Nook, then on through Lees Park in Droylsden. The last stage of section 1 is along the Ashton Canal in Audenshaw, then onto the Portland Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne.
It is a flat walk and is graded moderate, it is 6.7 miles in length and takes around 2 hours 10 minutes to complete.
The complete Tour Of Tameside, with full mapping and route finding text will be available shortly and will be free to anyone purchasing either of the two volumes of Walks In Tameside.