Manifold Way

Staffordshire

The Manifold Way is a multi-user route along the Manifold Valley following the former Leek and Manifold Light Railway through the attractive Staffordshire Moorlands. This trail is an easy route being on a tarmacadam track and minor roads between Waterhouses and Hulme End. The route has been open since the 1930s when the railway closed, and is probably the earliest case of a disused railway line being converted to a walkers' and cyclists' route.

Marked on OS Maps as Manifold Way and also referred to as Manifold Track on Derbyshire CC cycle map.

One of several former railway lines, collectively the White Peak Trails, providing useful links with many other routes through the White Peak area and which are open for use by walkers and cyclists. They are the High Peak Trail (18 miles) Cromford - Dowlow; Tissington Trail (13 miles) Ashbourne - Parsley Hay, where it connects with the High Peak Trail; Monsal Trail (9 miles) Wye Dale - Coombs Viaduct, Bakewell; Manifold Way (8 miles) Hulme End - Waterhouses.

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Details:

Path Type:	Paths Marked on OS mapping
Attributes:	Easy Former Railway Cycle Route Moorland River
Start:	SK091501 - Waterhouses, Peak District, Staffordshire
Finish:	SK103593 - Hulme End, Peak District, Staffordshire
Web Sites:	Derbyshire UK - Manifold Trail

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