HOMEPAGE SALFORD QUAYS QUAYSTOCLIFTONPT1 CLIFTONTOWALKDENPT2 WALKDENTOWORSLEYPT3 WORSLEYTOCADISHEADPT4 CADISHEADTOSALFORDQUAYS ADDITIONALIMAGES COMMENTS WALKONLYTOCOPY

The Salford Trail Worsley to Cadishead. Total 15.1 miles. Images 1. Queens Arms, Patricroft Station. The world's first pub associated with a railway. 2. Little Woolden Hall, Little Woolden Moss, Cadishead. 3 + 4. Bridge over the Glaze Brook at the end of the of the trail, showing the borders of the ancient boundaries of the Salford and West Derby Hundreds etched into the stonework of the bridge. This leg of the walk although shown as one distance of 15.1 miles can be split into two distinctive legs of around 8 miles each with Irlam railway station as the halfway mark. Walking it in two distinctive legs increases the total distance a little. A few yards before the Delph is Mill Brow. Walk up Mill Brow and into Worsley Woods. Pass through the woods alongside the Old Warke Dam. As the end of the dam is reached a black and white Tudor style cottage will be found in the woods, turn right at the side of the cottage and carry on until a flight of steps are reached. Descend the steps on to the Loop Line footpath and turn right. It is now a straight walk of about one mile to its end at Monton. After about 550 yards the path runs through the former Worsley railway station and the platforms can still be seen. Follow the Loop Line to its end at Monton, turn right at Monton Green and cross the bridge over the canal. Get on to the canal on the right hand side next to the pub named The Waterside. Directly across from the Monton Lighthouse. Follow the canal for half a mile until a railway bridge crosses over head. This is the Liverpool to Manchester railway opened in 1830 and the bridge over the canal is the worlds first example of a railway bridge over a canal. Not far from the side of the canal at this point is Patricroft railway station. This can be reached by crossing over the canal by climbing the nearby steps to the walkway above and dropping down on the next set of steps. Near to it is the Queens Arms pub, the worlds first railway pub. The pub, formerly named the Patricroft Tavern was opened in 1828 in anticipation of the business associated with the opening of the new railway. The name was changed following a visit to Salford by Queen Victoria in 1853. She arrived at Patricroft Station and then transferred to the Royal Barge on the nearby canal for transfer to Worsley where she stayed as a guest of the Duke of Bridgewater. Leave the canal behind at this point and turn right taking a path that runs parallel with the railway line, it being on your right hand side for about 950 yards before coming to Worsley Brook. At the brook turn left on either side of it and follow the path over the fields if you turn before the brook there will be a need to cross over a small stone bridge later. Both paths lead to the same point. At the end of the path turn right and pass under the motorway emerging into Brookhouse Avenue, turn left and then right into Senior Road, At the end of Senior Road where it turns right and becomes Northfleet Road there is a short passage with seven concrete stumps at the end of it. Walk down the passage to emerge on to Verdant Lane at the side of the cemetery. Turn right and walk at the side of the cemetery until a footpath is reached at the end. As the footpath is approached at the end of the road it appears to be blocked off by a fence, but it is open, with a offset gap in the middle. Once on the path go straight ahead at the side of the cemetery onto the moss land and the outer edge of Barton Aerodrome. Turn right and then left, following the outer edge. The path eventually runs at the side of Tunnel Farm, turn right and pass in front of the farm house and walk for 200 yards and pass over the motorway. Turn left after passing over and walk for 400 yards with the motorway on the left. After 400 yards the road bears right and straightens out. The name of this road is Twelve Yards Road although its length is just short of two miles, in an absolutely straight line with fields and moss land on either side. Twelve Yards Road ends at Astley Road. The Road is tree lined for much of its length with intermittent gaps of wide open spaces. Keep a look out for many types of birds, butterflies and moths. At the end of Twelve Yards road turn left at Astley Road. Walk along Astley Road for 1600 yards until a fork in the road is reached. - Note the unusual names of two of the farms along the way. Ebeneezer Farm and Hephzibah Farm. - Follow the right hand lane until a footpath sign is reached on the right hand side. **At this point the walk can be shortened for a quick exit route to the Irlam railway station or the A57 road to Warrington and back into Salford by bus. If this is required carry on down Astley Road for 825 yards until it meets the A57, then turn right for Irlam rail station. The total distance for this leg is 8.56 miles. ** If continuing on the longer distance take the footpath across the fields. The footpath continues for about 940 yards and passes by Rosebank Farm and on to a lane via a stile. Turn right after the stile and walk straight on past Woolden View Farm and over the M62 Motorway passing Birch Tree Farm, Little Haven and Ring Pit Farm, before a path, which runs through a wooded area and emerges onto a large peat bog. At the edge of the bog it is clearly signposted showing the pathway as turning to the right and skirting the edge of the bog to a point which is in a direct line ahead, where there is a stile. Old Ordnance Survey maps shows the path and right of way as a straight line over the bog. Newer maps show the new route around the outer edge of the bog. Peat extraction now eliminates the original route. Walking over peat is quite an experience, with the ground being soft and springy, underfoot. Also, keep an eye open for hares in these part as it is said that there are many. Hares live above ground in what is called a ‘form’, which is a small hollow in the ground. The hare digs a shallow resting hollow or "form" out of a moss hummock on the bog, which it lies in during the day. The form is dug out slightly more at one end than the other - the deeper end accommodates the hare's large and powerful hind quarters. The form is usually orientated so that the hare can sit with its back against the wind. Cross the stile and follow the path across the field which is in a straight but slightly diagonal direction. After about 160 yards an open track is reached. Turn left and follow the track to another wide path to the right, which runs between fields with farms on either side. The hard based track now passes a number of farms close together. These are Moss Lodge Farm, Red House Farm, and White Gate Farm on the right and Platt House Farm on the left. Walk to the end of this road and turn left where another farm, Moss Side Farm, is just around the corner. Walk along the road for 770 yards to where a signpost points to the right over a metal footbridge and immediately after another signpost points to the left. This is the extreme edge of Salford at its border with Astley. Take the second path to the left past Moss House Farm. This is now the route of the Timberland Trail for which a separate pamphlet is produced. (On the latest OS map it is shown as the Glazebrook Trail). The full trail runs from Cadishead to Pennington Flashes in Leigh, but part of which crosses the boundary out of Salford so cannot be included in the Salford Trail. The path is now more or less a straightforward route to the finish, running parallel with the Glaze Brook passing Little Woolden Hall then bearing left when a fork in the path is reached, crossing over the M62 motorway and through Great Woolden Hall Farm. There is a piece of local historical interest connected with the Glaze Brook along the nearby stretch. During the 1914-18 war German Prisoners of war were used to help the farmer on Woolden Hall Farm and they used to bathe in the river, but during one very dry Summer they found it difficult to find a suitable place. The prisoners decided to deepen about ten to fifteen yards of a reasonably straight piece of the brook, this part of the brook came to be known as the German part or the ten foot. Carry on under the railway line to the bus terminus or to the A57 bridge over the Glaze Brook, just before Hollins Green. Take a look at the inscription on the bridge on the left hand side as if crossing into Hollins Green. It has seen some repairs over the years, but is still recognisable as the boundary of the Salford Hundred and the West Derby Hundred. Two of the six Hundreds of Lancashire. The Salford Hundred or Salfordshire as it was once known, covered almost all of South East Lancashire. A very large area, having borders with Yorkshire in the East, Cheshire in the South and the other Hundreds of Lancashire to the North and West. The Salford Trail as a linear walk ends here. There are transport links in most directions, Glazebrook railway station is less than a mile up the B522.