Bollington

October 29th, 2025.

 

BOLLINGTON REC CAR PARK, PALMERSTON STREET, CHURCH STREET, INGERSLEY VALE, WHITE NANCY, KERRIDGE HILL, KERRIDGE END, BULL HILL LANE, BRINK FARM, WALKER BARN, HORDERN FARM, LAMALOAD ROAD, TOWER HILL RAINOW, SUGAR LANE, FLAGG COTTAGE, VIRGINS' PATH, INGERSLEY VALE, CHURCH STREET, THE VALE PUB IN ADLINGTON ROAD

 

Distance: 8.22 miles as recorded by the OS Maps App

Ascent/descent: 1453 ft

Difficulty: Moderate with one sharp climb

Weather: Dry cloudy becoming clear perfect autumn day, occasionally wet underfoot slippery and muddy.

Walkers Mike Cassini, Mark Enright, Mark Gibby, Hubert Hardiman, Greg Owen, Cliff Worthington, Keith Webb.

Alternative Walkers: Jock Rooney and Millie, Colin Davison.

Leader: Communal(MainlyHughie)Cassini. 

Diarist: Cassini

Starting point: Bollington Rec car park circular to the Vale public house

Starting time: 9.40am. Finishing time: 1.20.pm

This is a well walked route by the Wanderers with a number of copies in the diaries so a communal approach to the walk provided ample guidance along the way. 

The only point worth noting is that the ascent to White Nancy followed after a climb through Bollington past the pie shop heading right along Ingersley road towards the Poacher where right again took us to the steps and footpaths to the top. We then followed the route well documented with no deviations but the occasional slip I managed a pike and half turn well worth a 7/10 on a path down towards Rainow.

No wildlife of note though we did disturb a Kestrel; beer again very good value at the Vale at £3 a pint Long Hop and White Nancy from Bollington Brewery sampled.

Next week meet for a 9:40 start at the Boars Head Higher Poynton through Lyme Park and back for a pint at the Boar.

Happy Wandering!

From the archives

In the mid-1940s, the Royal Signal Corps Trials Unit based at Catterick would drive a truck-mounted dish-shaped transmitter/receiver up to White Nancy. Here they tested cathode-ray tube transmission and reception (data-based, not images), to a mobile receiving station on another truck. The receiver would be driven further and further south over time, until eventually the lads at White Nancy were sending a signal to the south coast of the country.

We set off at 10.15am, passing Quarry Bank on the left. At the top of the hill we turned left and faced Endon Quarry. It might have been renamed Endon Quandary because the trail appeared to go cold and with no Tonto to help we initially relied on Jock Rooney’s confident assertion that there was no point entering the quarry. (Incidentally, before I go on, did you know that the phrase Tonto used to call the Lone Ranger “Kemo Sabe” actually means “soggy bush” in Navajo? Well, you do now).

In best Tonto fashion Leader Hart went ahead to scout the route, turning right out of the mouth of the quarry and going right again about 300 yards further down the road, trailed by Whaites and Dearsley.