Walk to Manchester: Steel Cotton Trail Stage 1 - Sheffield Station to Dore Station

NOTE: This walk starts at 10:00am, not 10:30am. Apologies for any confusion.

Here's a challenge: let's walk from Sheffield to Manchester in 2026! 

The Steel Cotton Trail is a new walking route of 62.8 miles (101km) linking Sheffield and Manchester, following the Hope Valley Rail Line. Over a year we could do the entire trail in sections, one a month, each section starting and finishing at a train station, so transport should be relatively easy.

The first stage, Sheffield station to Dore station, will be well known to us and includes a lot of road walking, so it's a good short and easy walk for the New Year (hopefully weather-proof). The obsessives among us will have to do it if we're going to walk the entire route! So see you in the foyer at Sheffield Station at 10am on Tuesday 6th January. (As ever, please contact the leader in advance if you have not walked with the group before, and no dogs please.)

The Steel Cotton Trail is an initiative of the High Peak and Hope Valley Community Rail Partnership, and is named after the steel industry of Sheffield and the cotton mills of Manchester, whose workers  escaped their polluted cities in the early 20th century to walk in the clean air of the Peak District. You can find out more about the Trail on the website given below, and there is a nice blog about it if you follow this link: https://thewanderingwildflower.co.uk/steel-cotton-rail-trail/