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Walk Ride Stockport @walkridestocky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Stockport's quiet lanes would be greatly improved by restricting motor traffic this way.

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Chinley and Buxworth Transport Group @cbtransportgroup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This coming weekend, the 26/27 Sept there is a an Art Trail by Rail event coordinated by Hope Valley Climate Action group + High Peak Community Rail Partnership. Chinley is hosting a dozen artists at the WI Hall. Read more here... chinleybuxworthtg.co.uk/blogs/hope-v... @peaksandpuddles.com

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I would love for someone to do a quick calculation of the cost of barbecue-related wildfires vs whatever benefit they bring to the economy.

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Chinley and Buxworth Transport Group @cbtransportgroup.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The Hope Valley Mini Switzerland project announced today that it has financial backing from the DfT/East Midlands CCA Read our post here... @wrirosscities.bsky.social @walkwheelcyclet.bsky.social @highpeakgreens.bsky.social @paultattam.bsky.social chinleybuxworthtg.co.uk/blogs/govern...

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James Stafford @jamesdestafford.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I cycled phase 1 of the Wilmslow Handforth cycle path, its alright. Better than the share paths in the area. I read people have seen school children use it, that is good to hear.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 09/03/2026

Last chance. Closing today. (If you miss it, possible you can still email transport2050@tfgm.com)

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Steve @steveessex.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

As a distraction from events in Manchester, those who cycle, use trains and live or travel in the North might want to participate in this short survey: surveys.northernrailway.co.uk/jfe/form/SV_... There's a free form question at the end for being creative.

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Northerneers Survey

Northerneers Survey about Cycling

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 15/02/2026

Please fill in this consultation to make a pretty dreadful roundabout in Buxton a bit more favourable to active travel!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 07/01/2026

Hello 2026, time to get to work on changing this before the March deadline? Two minutes of your time for a personal objection. Could really use some wider publicity, please do anything you can!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 28/12/2025

Note that a now seemingly annual mega noisy tractor parade is happening today looping through High Lane, Marple, Strines, New Mills, Hayfield, Disley. Organised for the great cause that is The Christie cancer care. Embrace it or go elsewhere! And here is an unrelated article.

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Air pollution causing 1,100 cases a year of main form of lung cancer in UK

Exclusive: Health experts and cancer charities say findings should serve as wake-up call to ministers

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Cllr Sam Easterby-Smith @samsterby.com · 26/12/2025

It’s not every day that a path near my home makes a major political announcement and national news… but the “Mersey Valley Way” has that honour this Boxing Day. /1 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west

Mersey Valley Way takes in Manchester and Stockport on its 13-mile route with other walks to be identified in 2026

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 21/12/2025

Tea towels for all the Cheshire towns at the Treacle Market today.

Printed tea towels for Macclesfield, Prestbury, Abersoch, Altrincham, Alderley Edge…

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/12/2025

⚠️ Canal & River Trust have confirmed to me that the Peak Forest Canal towpath between Marple and Disley will now remain closed right through to 30th January 2025. Wholly understandable, the work is vital, but it remains a huge inconvenience to those of us who rely on the path as a transport route.

Photo of canal closure point this week with waterway drained and a mass of machinery and equipment.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 15/12/2025

Heard the canal towpath at Strines Aqueduct may be open? But the CRT stoppage page also states due to towpath side walls being in far worse state work will now continue to 30th January (half expected would happen 🙁): canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices/0196... Anyone been along lately?

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 14/12/2025

Not again, New Mills! 🎄🚲 (Fond memories of the Christmas I got verbally abused by former local cllr on Twitter for daring to suggest putting pointless metal barriers around the only cycle stands when local businesses need supporting is A Bit Bloody Stupid. These are unfixed and can be moved, but…🤷‍♂️)

Grey metal barriers surround both a small town Christmas tree and two Sheffield cycle stands with high street shops in the background.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 12/12/2025

A new addition to the Peak District cycle parking map! Brill work and thank you - perfect coffee stop on the Cheshire Mountains of Macclesfield now.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 11/12/2025

Crowden Clough to Ringing Roger refreshing the soul today.

Top of Crowden Clough looking across to Mam Tor. A stream begins to tumble between gritstone boulders.

Wind-shaped rock formations in a bleak winter moorland landscape with crisp cloud and blue sky.

Silhouetted jagged gritstone outcrops black against a blue cloudy sky and faded yellow moorland grasses.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 11/12/2025

One person can’t oppose £1 billion’s worth of destructive roadbuilding. Surely this isn’t the future we want. Please do all you can to raise awareness and respond!

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 10/12/2025

🚨🚗💨 Thanks to Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester, foothills and valleys of the Peak District fringe face the gravest threat of our lifetimes from huge new roadbuilding. Two severely harmful old road proposals have been dug up for TfGM’s 2050 transport plan. But you can choose a different way. 🌳👇

Photo of green valley below a canal with Kinder Scout visible in distance. Caption titled “Huge new roadbuilding here?”

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 09/12/2025

Pivot! The Greater Manchester Transport 2050 consultation is now finally live and in the Delivery Plan doc an A6 High Lane and Disley bypass is no longer “promoted by Cheshire East.” 🤭 *Of course* it was only ever a Stockport Council Highways pipe dream. www.gmconsult.org/transport/tr...

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 04/12/2025

TfGM‘s Head of Strategic Planning has confirmed to me the surprisingly defined line of a High Lane and Disley bypass will be updated to a vague arrow in their final Transport Plan Draft. Consultation - and the fight against such ridiculously counterproductive roadbuilding plans - now begins Monday.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 29/11/2025

Oh good, another Transport Plan. Seems to lack any specific targets and vague on whether ever-increasing private car journeys are actually bad. “Road transport is an important part of our mix. 62% of journeys to work under 6 miles are done by car.” www.eastmidlands-cca.gov.uk/mayors-trans...

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Compare and contrast the Government language. £3,750 EV grant on a £35k car: ‘helping families’. Cycle to Work: ‘subsidising leisure’. And yet cycling delivers TEN TIMES the impact of electric cars for reaching net zero. It’s almost like narrative, not data, is driving policy.

New Sunderland-made Nissan LEAF qualifies for £3,750 discount under government’s EV grant in a boost for North East manufacturing Vs Rachel Reeves to curb high-end bike purchases in Cycle to Work scheme

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 20/11/2025

Why is Greater Manchester putting two hugely destructive greenbelt road building projects back on the agenda, ploughing even more traffic into the Peak? Let’s call it Andy Burnham’s Big Greenbelt Roadbuilding Plan. Down with the Clean Air Zone signs, in with the diggers. @andyburnham.bsky.social

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 19/11/2025

⚠️ Strines, Disley, Newtown, New Mills, Furness Vale: Greater Manchester is looking to resurrect the long-dead A6 High Lane and Disley bypass which would utterly trash the Goyt valley and only make traffic worse and more harmful to this area.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 17/11/2025

Remember the trail alongside Fernilee Reservoir with the rogue ‘no cycling’ signs? Brought to my attention someone has now started a petition to make the 3-4m wide route a footpath only to prevent cycling, not permissive bridleway as Peak National Park are pursuing. The petition has… 13 signatures.

A wide and well surfaced 3 metre-plus-width trail alongside a long reservoir in the Peak District.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 17/11/2025

⛔️ Don’t forget, a small section of Middlewood Way north of Bollington is now closed to next Wednesday 26th November for resurfacing. Cheshire East have put an alert online saying bikes can be pushed along the top path. Last redone 2020, photo from 2022. www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/leisure,_cul...

A cycle trail in a cutting on a former railway track. The path is very wet and muddy with full ponds and ditches on either side.

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Laura Laker @lauralaker.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I FOI'd English councils whether they use legal land purchase powers to create traffic-free paths. Just 1% said they have successfully. Why is something that's so common for roads almost never done for cycle routes? And what does it mean for cycling? lauralaker.substack.com/p/cycleways-...

A map showing a new cycle route in yellow dotted line, redirecting part of NCN2 in Devon onto traffic-free paths, with the title Cycleways to nowhere

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Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Back in 2020, Stockport Council consulted on a walking and cycling scheme along (or occasionally parallel to) the A34. It was a mixed bag, but local campaigners supported it with several caveats. It’s back for another consultation – because part of the scheme is being dropped.

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Peak District National Park @peakdistrict.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Another fantastic Farming in Protected Landscapes #FiPL funded project. 👏 These lovely new gates at Ringstones Clough & Stoneheads are now in place which will make things much easier for walkers, runners, mountain bikers & horse riders who use this ancient route between Whaley & Furness Vale. 🥾🚲🐴

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 03/11/2025

Small but positive change to Lyme Park’s winter opening hours which are extended this year from 4.30 to 5pm. I risked a longer loop avoiding the canal closure to get back across the borders, and met the friendly ranger coming down to lock up at gone 4.50. (They always lock West gate first.)

Entrance gate with National Trust ‘Welcome to Lyme’ signage attached showing opening hours 8.30am to 5pm.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 03/11/2025

⛔️ Peak Forest Canal towpath completely blocked at Turf Lea/Strines for major works. Solid metal fence going up now. No good route Marple-Disley. Preferable to a collapsed canal but an *unbelievably* inconvenient stretch to close with seemingly little publicity or thought to cycle & wheel diversion.

A line spray painted across a canal towpath where a solid metal fence was about to be installed into the ground, completely blocking the route.

A huge temporary stone haul road across a field beside a canal, for works to repair a culvert.

A digger operates on the off side of the canal, where a culvert requires major works. The path pictured will be completely inaccessible until at least Christmas, possibly beyond.

Closure notices and diversion map at the site, stating a statutory six month closure. The diversion map does not note the multiple obstacles of barriers, steps and stiles on the posted diversion, which is only suitable for pedestrians despite the canal also being advertised as a wheeling and cycling route.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 31/10/2025

⛔️ Middlewood Way closed north of Bollington 17th-26th November. Where it often gets wet, so very welcome, but awkward to avoid! Provided you can use steps, the best diversion would be via Macc Canal from Holehouse Ln to Hawthorn Rd. Canal and return to trail is step-free at least and no hills.

Photo thanks to Katy.

Notice reads: ADVANCED WARNING FOR SURFACING ON THE MIDDLEWOOD WAY
PLEASE BE AWARE
THAT THE SECTION OF PATH FROM HOLEHOUSE LANE, WHITELEY GREEN, BRIDGE 8 TO BRIDGE 7,
BOLLINGTON
WILL BE CLOSED TO CARRY OUT
THESE WORKS
FROM
MONDAY 17TH TO WEDNESDAY 26th
NOVEMBER

Map showing diversion as described and closure south of Holehouse Lane.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 29/10/2025

Want to stop at the Post Office? Thank God for the one single Sheffield cycle stand in Hayfield village. (It’s beside the church.) More helpful finds like this on my Peak District Cycle Parking Map: www.peaksandpuddles.com/tips/cycle-p...

A metal Sheffield stand fixed in the ground against gravestones in a churchyard, with village buildings in the background.

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Peak District National Park @peakdistrict.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

🚲 Get 10% off your bike hire when you book online this half term with code HALFTERM10 at checkout! 👉 Book now! www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/bikehire Valid for all of our Bike Hire Centres at #Ashbourne, #Derwent, and #ParsleyHay with advanced online booking from 18 October until 2 November.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 28/10/2025

Thought I’d try requesting a local 20mph limit with Derbyshire Council. Received a reply from Philip Braisby, ‘Senior Technician - Traffic and Safety’ which basically reads as a copy-paste response that the council will not be implementing 20mph anywhere. They do not believe in it as a concept.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 20/10/2025

Imagining Cheshire East’s active travel photo library. Alt text: A person cycling on the A6 at Disley, teeth gritted, eyes filled with terror, as the unprotected painted lane ends at a pointless traffic island and the speed limit increases to 40mph, an HGV about to swerve into their path.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 18/10/2025

Good news that Cheshire Wildlife Trust has acquired land between Jenkin Chapel and Lamaload for a second nature reserve in the area. Such a lovely undiscovered part of the Peak but where management has previously failed nature and flood resistance. www.cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reser...

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Aldred's Lea | Cheshire Wildlife Trust

Aldred’s Lea is one of our newest nature reserves, located within a secluded area of the Peak District.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 14/10/2025

Here comes the colour to light up the dull, grey weather. Thank you, trees.

A track descends through a wooded brook beside a stream. Leaves of the trees are turning to vivid yellow and orange. (Hase Bank Wood, Lyme)

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

It would be great if we could take a whole country and change the default speed limit to 20mph and then compare it to one left at 30mph. What if it reduced casualties by 25% and with lower risk reduced insurance premiums by £45 a year? Well it did! bit.ly/4gIBPlJ

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 01/10/2025

United Utilties have replied: “We believe that the no cycling signs may have also been installed at the same time [as the new gates], by the [Peak District National Park] staff. The message conveyed by the signs is correct, as the path has never been an official cycle path, as aforementioned.”

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 01/10/2025

Your favourite bench on Middlewood Way could soon be just a view of massive greenbelt housing sprawl, under proposals for a new town at Adlington. Dire implications for surrounding lanes and National Park landscape, especially the Brickworks which would fully become a major east-west traffic route.

The bench on Middlewood Way near Higher Doles Farm, looking out over green farmland owned largely by the Adlington Hall Estate, recently sold to developer Belport. The landscape is a wide, clear green break between the sprawl of Manchester and Cheshire towns like Macclesfield.

Map showing the extent of Adlington Hall Estate land recently put up for sale, spanning both sides of the A523 around existing sparse houses and farms, coming within metres of the Peak District National Park boundary.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 15/09/2025

Headstone, Cressbrook and Litton tunnels on the Monsal Trail will be closed this Wednesday 17th September from 9am to 1pm, due to National Grid works cutting the power supply.

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Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com · 15/09/2025

September skies over Lyme. Don’t forget you can still get completely free entry to the house and garden when cycling or using public transport until the end of this month! www.peaksandpuddles.com/cycle-routes...

The frontage of Lyme Hall lit by sun with dark skies above.

A bright rose garden scene below blue skies and dark grey clouds.

Moorland lodge known as The Cage lit by sunlight against grey clouds and distant black, Dark Peak hills.

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Walk Ride GM @walkridegm.org.uk · 09/09/2025

Fed up with pavement parking? We're supporting @livingstreets.bsky.social to show where pavements are used as car parks to the detriment of all who walk/wheel. Go & take photos (make sure you cover over reg numbers) & upload them to the Living Streets map: lnkd.in/ekEmPn3q Contribute by 22 Nov

A red car covering most of a pavement on a residential street. There are other cars covering the pavement further along the road.

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