The Longdendale Trail is an English long-distance

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following the former Woodhead railway line, which ran between Manchester and Sheffield and closed east of Hadfield, Derbyshire in 1981. It has shallow gradients and a smooth surface that makes it popular with families and

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s. The trail, which opened in May 1992, forms part of the longer

Trans Pennine Trail The Trans Pennine Trail is a long-distance path running from coast to coast across Northern England on a mixture of surfaced paths, with some short on-road sections, and with gentle gradients (it runs largely along disused railway lines and c ...

, NCR 62, that runs from coast to coast across the UK (Liverpool to Hull). This in turn is part of the

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, which runs for from

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in Ireland to Istanbul in Turkey. The Longdendale Trail follows the Longdendale Chain of reservoirs and is owned and managed by the water company

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Footpaths in Derbyshire Tourist attractions of the Peak District Rail trails in England Long-distance footpaths in England {{Derbyshire-geo-stub

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