Shutlingsloe Walk 10am

Grade: Challenging Distance: 10km/6.5 miles Time: 3-4 hours Start: Trentabank car park, Macclesfield Forest ///blushed.reading.riverbed. This is a pay and display car park. Three parking spaces reserved for disabled people close to toilets.  Terrain: Mainly public rights of way with some country lanes. A steady, fairly steep climb up to Shutlingsloe followed by a steep descent, then mostly level. There is a short, stone-surfaced track suitable for wheelchair users opposite the car park entrance which provides a good viewpoint of the reservoir and its birdlife, including the heronry. Toilets: Trentabank car park; includes accessible toilet with RADAR key access. Starting at Trentabank car park in Macclesfield Forest, follow a circular route over Shutlingsloe, Wildboarclough and Oaken Clough back to Trentabank car park. Stone walls, old barns and upland meadows dotted with harebells set the scene for this taste of Cheshire's hill country. Rising sharply above the plain, this is a wild, upland landscape, carved from gritstone and grazed…