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Coppice Road, STOCKPORT, SK12 1SP

This is the Middlewood Way near the Shrigley Road Bridge, looking south towards Bollington. For much of its length, the Middlewood Way runs along an old railway track close to the Macclesfield Canal, and there are many options for easy circular walks. Here at Higher Poynton in the 1940s, up to 28 trains per day called at the station (which was demolished in 1977). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlewood_Way The Way follows the route of the former Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway, opened in 1869 and closed in 1970. The track was lifted in early 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macclesfield,_Bollington_and_Marple_Railway

This is the Middlewood Way in a deep shady cutting, looking south towards Bollington from the Shrigley Road Bridge, with telephoto assistance. For much of its length, the Middlewood Way runs along an old railway track close to the Macclesfield Canal, and there are many options for easy circular walks. Here at Higher Poynton in the 1940s, up to 28 trains per day called at the station (which was demolished in 1977). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlewood_Way The Way follows the route of the former Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway, opened in 1869 and closed in 1970. The track was lifted in early 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macclesfield,_Bollington_and_Marple_Railway

As part of the development of the former railway as a leisure way, it was decided that the girder bridges were insufficiently strong for modern traffic, and additional supports were added, either in brickwork as here, or with steel girders. This is Shrigley Road bridge.

Former railway used as a bridleway, the girder of the old bridge now reinforced by a brick column

This is the Middlewood Way near the Shrigley Road Bridge, No 14, looking north towards Marple. For much of its length, the Middlewood Way runs along an old railway track close to the Macclesfield Canal, and there are many options for easy circular walks. Here at Higher Poynton in the 1940s, up to 28 trains per day called at the station (which was demolished in 1977). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlewood_Way The Way follows the route of the former Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway, opened in 1869 and closed in 1970. The track was lifted in early 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macclesfield,_Bollington_and_Marple_Railway

This is the Middlewood Way near the Shrigley Road Bridge, looking south towards Bollington. For much of its length, the Middlewood Way runs along an old railway track close to the Macclesfield Canal, and there are many options for easy circular walks. Here at Higher Poynton in the 1940s, up to 28 trains per day called at the station (which was demolished in 1977). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlewood_Way The Way follows the route of the former Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway, opened in 1869 and closed in 1970. The track was lifted in early 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macclesfield,_Bollington_and_Marple_Railway

Shrigley Road Bridge No 14. For much of its length, the Middlewood Way runs along an old railway track close to the Macclesfield Canal, and there are many options for easy circular walks. Here at Higher Poynton in the 1940s, up to 28 trains per day called at the station (which was demolished in 1977). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlewood_Way Image] The Way follows the route of the former Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway, opened in 1869 and closed in 1970. The track was lifted in early 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macclesfield,_Bollington_and_Marple_Railway

This is the Middlewood Way in a deep shady cutting, looking north towards Marple from the Shrigley Road Bridge, with telephoto assistance. For much of its length, the Middlewood Way runs along an old railway track close to the Macclesfield Canal, and there are many options for easy circular walks. Here at Higher Poynton in the 1940s, up to 28 trains per day called at the station (which was demolished in 1977). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlewood_Way The Way follows the route of the former Macclesfield, Bollington and Marple Railway, opened in 1869 and closed in 1970. The track was lifted in early 1971. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macclesfield,_Bollington_and_Marple_Railway

The bridlepath at Poynton Coppice

Poynton Coppice is thought to have been continuously wooded for thousands of years and so, is classed as an ancient woodland. Part of the Coppice is privately owned, but an 8-hectare section is owned by Cheshire East Council and is managed with wildlife in mind. The woodland management strategy includes the reintroduction, in part of the wood, of the traditional practice of coppicing. http://www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/leisure,_culture_and_tourism/ranger_service/countryside_sites/macclesfield_area_countryside/poynton_coppice_lnr.aspx - Cheshire East Council