Stage 17 Leigh to Irlam
Distance 10 miles
Windy
Reed warbler (although the app reckoned it was a wood pigeon), linnet, swallows, goat and emu, kestrel, buzzard, shaggy sheep.
Insect bites: 1 each
Yesterday we were at Old Trafford Cricket Ground watching the Hundred games (the Originals both lost to the Southern Brave) and spent last night at a Premier Inn in Salford Quays. After loading up on breakfast, we headed off to catch the V1 bus to Leigh. It rained as we were traveling but stopped just as we arrived in Leigh and the sun came out which made the roads and shed roofs steam.
We left the streets and onto a slightly muddy footpath leading to early wet feet. After a tricky road crossing by a busy roundabout we were on to quiet country lanes and farm tracks towards Little Woolden Moss nature reserve. We had a sit at what used to be a bird hide but was now just a bench and a large information sign annd watched the kestrels and buzzards. After crossing the M62 on a quiet bridge, there was more farmland with horses, goats and a very cute shaggy sheep. We turned off up a footpath that was quite overgrown with nettles, clearly not many people come this way.
A lumpy lane brought is into Irlam through a housing estate to Irlam station heritage trail, where it appears that the station was run by hobbits. We caught the train to Oxford Road and the tram home from St Peters Square.
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