Mossley Moors Day Walk

Starting at Mossley Railway Station we will drop down to the Huddersfield Canal and use the towpath to go north up the valley and along the old Stalybridge/Diggle rail line to the Saddleworth border.

Then the climb upto Whitegate Moor and Noonsun Hill from which there are extensive views of Greenfield and Friezland. We then head south along an old packhorse trail and Roman rd to Carrbrook skirting the base of the Iron Age Buckton Castle and the working Buckton Quarry into and around Cowbury Dale Nature Reserve.

Dropping down and wandering through the former model industrial village of Carrbrook there is another climb upto Slatepit Moor which we will traverse across into the top of the Brushes Valley. Rather than take the tarmac road down past the reservoirs we will use a newly formed track at a higher level to swing round Harridge Hill to meet the packhorse trail again at Higher Hydegreen.

We will then make our way down towards the Tame Valley and the Huddersfield Canal through the derelict (but now naturalised) former Hartshead Power Station and Millbrook Sidings site rejoining the towpath at Scouthead rapids and back to Mossley.