TPT Day 4 from High Melton to Howden promised to be a less strenuous than yesterday’s exertions over the Pennines. Having been woken early by a fire alarm and still feeling the fatigue in the legs from yesterday the ride mercifully began by dropping down through High Melton and back to Denby Ings Nature Reserve. Soon we picked up the River Don and followed this to Sprotbrough. We turned away from the river and cycled towards Bentley and then on…
Wednesday was our TPT Day 3 – Stockport to High Melton. We set off from home and cycled back to where the TPT enters Reddish Vale, where we left it yesterday. The first section was very familiar to us. From there we headed up through Haughton Dale then on towards Godley. We went through Hattersley We stopped off in Hadfield for a coffee. Our route then took us to the Longdendale Trail and on towards the Woodhead Tunnels. We…
Below is our Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) Itinerary. We will be undertaking this coast-to-coast trail, which runs between Southport and Hornsea and is 215 miles long, in Autumn 2015. The Trans Pennine Trail (TPT) is National Cycle Network Route 62 and runs right through the centre of our hometown Stockport. It is described as “an exciting route for walkers, cyclists and horse riders linking the North and Irish seas, passing through the Pennines, alongside rivers and canals and through some of…
