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Introduction<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to 2025, and Happy New Year to all readers of this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the deluge of New Year’s Eve, followed by a heavy frost this morning, I decided to play it safe for my first walk of the new year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paths and tracks at Water Utility reservoirs are generally well maintained, so I headed up through Ashton-under-Lyne to Dove Stone Reservoir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather was clear, crisp and very cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a 45 minute drive to Dove Stone from Cheadle Hulme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The walk is 7 miles. It took 2 hours 45 minutes plus 15 minutes for lunch and involved 630 feet of ascent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of the walk is on Water Authority land, and is excellent for dogs to run off the lead, though it’s quite busy around the reservoir. It’s not so busy on the first part, along the Oldham Way, though there is one stile that has to be climbed over in this section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I walked in an anticlockwise direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The walk is on OS Explorer Map OL1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I parked in the car park, costing \u00a32.30, postcode OL3 7NE. There are toilets here. What 3 Words \/\/\/poetic.meant.health<\/p>\n\n\n

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Dove Stone Reservoir To The Oldham Way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I headed out along Bradbury’s Way, a road that leaves the car park just above the toilet block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather and views all around were worth taking in as I set off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The road passes a lovely row of worker’s cottages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From here the path rises and the now frozen remnants of the downpour on Tuesday were much in evidence. Much care was needed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I joined The Oldham Way at Fer Lee Farm, taking a u-turn onto Intake Lane, which is in fact just a path leading to a pretty woodland walk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beyond the wood, the reservoir dominates the vista below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Whilst above, Wimberry Rocks tower on the edge of the ridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Chew Valley, Dove Stone And Yeoman Hey Reservoirs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It’s a dramatic landscape here with Chew Brook, in the foreground and Alderman’s Hill in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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All this way, I had walked in the shadow of Alphin Pike, and wondered whether I should have climbed the pike and walked in the sunshine along the ridge, a route I have tackled previously (link below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mossley, Alphin Pike, Dovestone Reservoir, Chew Brook, And Swineshaw Reservoirs<\/a><\/blockquote>