"Winds of the Pennines fresh and free", wrote the poet Ammon Wrigley and we could see what he meant as a gale tried to blow us off Standedge. The medieval Reaps Way led down into sheltered cloughs by Close Gate Bridge, before a final buffeting on Pule Hill.
LOCATION: Seven miles north-east of Oldham
START: Brun Clough Reservoir car park on A62 at top of Standedge Cutting
Grid ref: SE016095 Postcode: OL3 5LT
DISTANCE: 7 miles
GRADE: Moderate
TIME: 4 hours
MAP: Explorer OL - Dark Peak & South Pennines Landranger 110
REFRESHMENTS: Pack a flask
EN ROUTE: Brun Moor, Millstone Edge, Pennine Way, Northern Rotcher, Close Gate Bridge, Redbrook Reservoir
This walk was originally published by
The Manchester Evening News