This is the fourth section of the circular Tour Of Tameside, an alternative route to the Tameside Trail.
The tour visits all 8 towns in the borough, albeit some of them only briefly.
Some parts of the route are the same as the Tameside Trail, this is unavoidable.
The Tour Of Tameside is an anti-clockwise walk and keeps to the countryside or waterways and only short sections are on roads.
Section 4 starts at the Wagon & Horses Public House on the A6018 Mottram Road, Stalybridge and then goes up to Hobson Moor Road and the trig point on Wild Bank Hill.
Next it crosses Hollingworthall Moor to the Higher Swineshaw Reservoir and the track to Carrbrook below Harridge Pike.
The last stage of section 4 is across the Huddersfield Narrow Canal and River Tame in Mossley, then up to Hartshead Pike and finally Park Bridge in Ashton-under-Lyne. It is a walk with a fair bit of climbing, is the toughest of all four sections and is graded hard. It is 9.8 miles in length and takes around 4 hours to complete.
The complete Tour Of Tameside, with full mapping and route finding text will be available shortly and will be free to anyone purchasing either of the two volumes of Walks In Tameside.