This is the second 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 2 starts at the Portland Basin in Ashton-under-Lyne and follows the Peak Forest Canal to Dukinfield, then the River Tame to Haughton Dale in Denton.
Next the route rejoins the Peak Forest Canal and then climbs up through the countryside south of Gee Cross to the Higham Visitors Centre at Werneth Low.
The first part is flat but a climb up to Werneth Low follows, the section is graded moderate. It is 6.7 miles in length and takes around 2 hours 25 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.