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Walker Fold, HYDE, SK14 2SF

The cobbled path past the squeeze stile leads down to the Trans Pennine Trail Image

The "New Roundabout Ahead" has been there for more than a decade now. It is at the junction with Walker Lane.

Off Walker Fold.

The footpath through the squeeze stile at the back of Donald Avenue gives access to the Trans Pennine Trail Image

This section of the Trans Pennine Trail along the line of the old Godley to Apethorn railway line is very popular with dog walkers.

The former Godley to Apethorn Railway line has been reclaimed for the Trans Pennine Trail and National Cycle Route #62. At several points there are separate paths of cyclists/walkers and horseriders. Wild chicory Image grows on the grass between. Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers. When flowering, chicory has a tough, grooved, and more or less hairy stem, from 30 to 100 centimetres (10 to 40 in) tall. The leaves are stalked, lanceolate and unlobed. The flower heads are 2 to 4 centimetres (0.79 to 1.6 in) wide, and usually bright blue, rarely white or pink. There are two rows of involucral bracts; the inner are longer and erect, the outer are shorter and spreading. It flowers from July until October.The achenes have no pappus (feathery hairs), but do have toothed scales on top. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory

On the Trans Pennine Trail Image Common chicory, Cichorium intybus, is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant usually with bright blue flowers. When flowering, chicory has a tough, grooved, and more or less hairy stem, from 30 to 100 centimetres (10 to 40 in) tall. The leaves are stalked, lanceolate and unlobed. The flower heads are 2 to 4 centimetres (0.79 to 1.6 in) wide, and usually bright blue, rarely white or pink. There are two rows of involucral bracts; the inner are longer and erect, the outer are shorter and spreading. It flowers from July until October.The achenes have no pappus (feathery hairs), but do have toothed scales on top. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicory

Looking along the Trans Pennine Trail (former Godley to Apethorn Railway) towards the bridge connecting Donald Street (left) Image to Grange Road North.

Probably used nowadays mainly as an access to the Trans Pennine Trail, the cobblestones on this footpath suggest it is part of a more ancient route from Green Lane.

The Trans Pennine Trail and National Cycle Route #62 runs here along what was the trackbed of the Godley Junction to Apethorn railway. At one time an iron footbridge crossed here http://hydonian.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/iron-bridge.html but it has been demolished and now a footpath leads up to Donald Avenue. The sign in the centre directs horse riders to use the gravel bridleway on the left leaving the tarmacked path for cyclists and walkers. On the corner is a Sustrans Milepost Image of the Cockerel design which was erected in 2014.