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None of it is particularly out of the way. It's not A6 in to Stockport straight but it's a mountain bike ride. I took a new rider out last week and part way round he realised he was about 1 mile from his car in Marple. "Why are we going away from my car, it's just down the road, might as well go that way"
It's a bike ride, not a fastest way to get back. I use most if not all of the Marple to Stockport stuff up ^ there on my commute into Stockport or Manchester from near Hayfield every day. It meanders but it doesn't go in the wrong direction.
The Reddish Vale Singletrack is just the other side of British Gas on New Bridge Lane. Nowhere near Werneth Low. In fact, reading back, If you take the road from Marple locks to Mill Lane and then Mill Lane to Stockport centre of Stockport Rd etc. you've actually gone past everything mentioned above.
Here's a suggestion. If you find yourself in Marple at the end of the very boring Middlewood Way. Go straight down Dale Rd. Keep going as it becomes a broken, winding downhill road......right past the canoe place until you reach the end (farm house with holiday lodges). Keep right of the house wall, pop off the drain pipe onto the singleteack and keep on it (can't do anything else) and you'll arrive at the Sustains bridge / Chadkirk. MUCH more fun than Stockport Rd along Dan Bank. Just one way of getting down there.....
Sounds good. If only there was a Strava / GPX for that route, that's what I'd need to be able to know where I'm going
Going to do this ride on monday. Am I best starting at Hope or Edale? Also, will I get lost or is it easy to navigate? Could do with some basic pointer I think.
Map?