Macclesfield Harriers

9.30 Tegg's Nose car park, Buxton Old Rd, Macclesfield SK11 0AP

A ~2 hour off-road run from a local venue this week due to the rainy forecast. A linear route from Hathersage to Edale was on the cards this week but will leave this for another time when the weather is more likely to be dry.


The view from Teggs Nose

Tegg's Nose car park is metered but allegedly you don't have to pay in winter! Yes you do - see below

Tea in the cafe there afterwards.



Tegg’s Nose Country Park is located close to Macclesfield in Cheshire on the western edge of the Peak District National Park.
There is evidence of activity in the area since the Bronze age, including a Burial Chamber and lots of examples of how the Country Park has been shaped by its past use for quarrying, from the 16th century to as recently as 1955.
Views from Tegg’s Nose overlook nearby Macclesfield Forest and across to the summit of Shutlingsloe, which is the second highest point in Cheshire, From the Tegg’s Nose summmit at a height of 380m or 1246ft there are views over the two reservoirs in the Country Park which are Bottoms Reservoir built in 1850, and the smaller Teggs Nose Reservoir constructed slightly later in 1871. The two reservoirs were used to regulate the water supply to factories in nearby Langley Village.





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Car park charges apply all year round now, so don't forget to bring your pennies. Well worth the parking charges in view of the yummy food in the café afterwards

Thanks for that confirmation Hazel.

If convenient meet at Tucker's 9.15 departure for car & parking cost shareing.

2.13 was the magic number and time it took Donworkin to circumvent this hilly sally from Tegg's Nose, led by the salubrious Dave Tucker: 20 hardy-types set foot on what he had planed into some of Cheshire's finest landscape; for various reasons, and after a couple of miles the group split into two, and didn't join up again until the fun was all over. In the meantime folk were getting a grip with the tricky conditions underfoot; though frosty in places, and dire negotiating the icy stiles, the fields were wonderful to pass, especially those bathed in bright sunshine. Pity, Lily wasn't out there today, to take-it-all-in but, she's now pushing 11, and finding these type of runs a little too difficult, so her master, wisely, left her at home: Donworkin could do with someone who's so considerate like that, looking over him; but on second though, better not; - they'd probably have had Donworkin put down by now on account of him not being able to keep-up with the group. So keep quiet he say's and they may ignore what you're doing there.

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