Finally, a walk. The ground is drying and recovering from the wettest winter on record. Yesterday, as my partner was competing in a dressage competition in Northallerton, I took the train over the hills to see my parents and to go for a walk.
My parents live in Hyde, about ten miles to the East of Manchester. This was in Cheshire when I was growing up but it is now in Tameside. The town is on the edge of the Pennines and is overlooked by Werneth Low. When I was young I was confused by the name, how can the highest hill around be called a Low; I now know this is a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon word of "lough" meaning hill.
After lunch I left my parents as they have always been big football fans and they wanted to watch the football on tv, Manchester United were playing somebody. I went for a walk up the Low, something I have not done for almost forty years since I left Hyde. The climb is from around 100 to 279 metres. The weather was warmish, sunny but hazy which restricted the views towards Manchester or the Pennines from the top.
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| Nearing the top |
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| The War Memorial, erected in 1921 |
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| War Memorial with the Wireless Transmission Station in the background. |
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| My route was behind the bench then along the ridge to the left |
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| View from the top, not much to see through the haze. |
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| Looking back towards the War Memorial |
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| Down, towards Broadbottom |
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| Back Wood, still rather muddy |
The walk was around five miles, about 2.5 hours. It felt really good. I caught the train from Broadbottom station within ten minutes so I timed that well, back to Manchester then changed to a train back to York.
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