Stages 3 & 4 Didsbury to Middlewood
Distance: 14 miles
Nuthatch, long tailed tits, swifts, buzzards, parakeet, thrushes, fox, squirrels
Insect bites: a few
Dogs: a million
We got the tram to Didsbury and followed the path along the tramlines, detouring into the village to have breakfast, and joined back up with the route along busy roads lined with nice houses. We got a bit lost in the leisure centre car park but found a footpath through some woods near to the entrance to the golf course and followed that until we met up with the track. It was very warm and humid, and quite nice to be under trees. Coming out of the woods into parkland at Bramhall Hall we had a sit down on a bench by a big pond. Bramhall Hall is being renovated at the moment and was covered in scaffolding and plastic sheeting, and the grounds were covered in children having a school day out and dogwalkers with a million dogs.
The path goes through parkland, woodland and grassy meadows before crossing a busy road and entering Poynton Park. It was definitely clouding over and becoming even more humid, we had a sit down and ordered our train tickets for the way home. From the park we walked through farmland with lots of sheep and big fancy houses. The last bit of the days walk was along a narrow wiggly road that has no pavement to Middlewood Railway station, which is basically a platform in the middle of a wood. We stood in the shade under the bridge and waited for the train, listening to some confused kids on bikes up on the path above us who had called their parents for directions.
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