Скачать или смотреть Beautiful autumn paddle near Manchester | Peak Forest Canal, Marple to Whaley Bridge 🍂

🍂 Looking for a relaxing autumn paddle full of colour and scenery? The Peak Forest Canal, just outside Manchester, is the perfect spot for paddleboarding, kayaking or canoeing. As you wind along the water, you’ll be surrounded by changing leaves and, on a clear day, rewarded with views of the Pennines and Kinder Scout ⛰️

Thanks to ‪@ordnancesurvey‬ Champion, Meg Collington, for joining us and showing us this stunning route!

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🛶 Distance: 10.4km (6.5 miles)

⏰ Time: 3 hours

🚗 Park one car at the end point at Canal Wharf car park, in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire (SK23 7LX) and shuttle in another car to Lockside Road in Marple, Greater Manchester (SK6 6BN)

🚻 Toilets are available in Marple and the Canal Wharf car park in Whaley Bridge

☕ Food & refreshments available in Marple

🪪 Waterways licence required — included with Paddle UK membership

📍Launch just south of Posset Bridge, not far from the car park

At a junction right for the Macclesfield Canal we take a left, leaving Marple through a mix of industrial scenery, before reaching a series of swing bridges.

You can portage at the swing bridges, or if you feel comfortable, open them and return them to their original position.

You’ll wind your way across the county boundary past a marina and into Derbyshire. Enjoy the changing scenery and autumn colour!

🍬 You’ll soon pass New Mills, and the sweet smell of the Swizzels Matlow factory.
Keep going and you’ll reach a fork in the canal. Take the first left to visit and explore Bugsworth Basin.

It was once the largest and busiest inland port on the narrow canal system and the only one to survive intact.

💡 This consists of three large basins, which formed part of a large inland port, to bring the canal as close as possible to the limestone from quarries at Dove Stone.

Retrace your route to where the canal forks, take a right where you will finish the paddle at a smaller basin, near a railway interchange in Whaley Bridge.

Now you’ve made it to Whaley Bridge, get off the water and head back to the Canal Wharf car park. Drive back to the Lockside Road car park in Marple.

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