You rise through the tight valley of an arm of the Upper Churnet River to then ascend the quite sensational Hen Cloud, a tilted standalone rockface, for stunning views of the Staffordshire Plain as well as the route ahead over the famous gritstone escarpment of the Roaches, part of a 6-kilometre curved ridge which you follow all the way to the fascinating viewpoint of the Hanging Stone.
Upper Hulme to Macclesfield via Hen Cloud, Roaches, Shutlingsloe walk
Hen Cloud and the Roaches, the Hanging Stone, Lud's Church chasm, the Dane Valley, lonely Wildboarclough, the 'Cheshire Matterhorn', Macclesfield Forest, Reservoirs.
History
This is a list of previous times this walk has been done by the club (since Jan 2010). For more recent events (since April 2015), full details are shown.
Date | Option | Post | # | Weather |
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Fri, 02-Sep-22 | Hen Cloud, The Roaches, the Hanging Stone, Lud's Church Chasm, Wildboarclough, Shutlingsloe: Upper Hulme to Macclesfield [Buxton Trip] [New Walk] | 12 | cloudy then sunny |
You rise through the tight valley of an arm of the Upper Churnet River to then ascend the quite sensational Hen Cloud, a tilted standalone rockface, for stunning views of the Staffordshire Plain as well as the route ahead over the famous gritstone escarpment of the Roaches, part of a 6-kilometre curved ridge which you follow all the way to the fascinating viewpoint of the Hanging Stone.
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Mon, 22-Aug-22
Crag Inn checked: they will be open.
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Mon, 22-Aug-22
trials and tribulations of long term walk posting: this is the last chance (ever?) to do this walk starting from Buxton, as Line 16 will be replaced on the Buxton - Leek stretch by line 108 next Monday, and that will not have a morning service. lucky escape...
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Fri, 02-Sep-22
5 new arrivals compared to yesterday, but one household of 4 did not join the walk to instead walk Sunday's walk, in reverse from the Monsal Dale bus stop (some of them are going back on Sunday and had walked Macclesfield to Leek last year). So 12 walkers on this walk. The weather was exactly as forecast: low cloud as we woke up, still cloudy as we left Buxton on the bus, but slowly improving to a sunny afternoon.
Nothing much to report, other than it's a fantastic walk, all the way. We stopped at Gradbach Mill for picnic lunch, then at the Craig Inn for a drink. 1 walker with a cold negotiated a lift from there to Macclesfield, the rest gamely went up and over Shutlingsloe and into Macclesfield. We finished 1 km short of the station at The Dolphin for a drink and boarded the last bus across the moors from there.
cloudy then sunny