Wildlife, sewage works, flyovers and canals... inside Greater Manchester's most unlikely beauty spots
Here in Greater Manchester we're very lucky to be surrounded on pretty much all sides by some of the UK's most stunning countryside. But if you know where to look there's plenty of places much closer to home where it's just as easy to get away from it all.
From there it's short walk along an overgrown boardwalk to the rusting hulk of the Grade II-listed Barton Swing Bridge, which takes me over into Salford. After cutting through the housing estate opposite the handsome Rock House pub, we're back at the water's edge And if you're anything like me, even the stink of 1.2m people's waste is preferable to a schlepping round the Trafford Centre.
But thankfully most days the only drama it sees is if a kid falls off his bike, or a dog gets off the lead. Starting out where the Irwell emerges at Scotland Street, named in honour of Manchester's links with the Jacobite Rebellion, follow the river up along Dantzic Street into Collyhurst Road past the derelict travellers site.
At the top of the hill you're greeted by Peachstone Henge, a sculpture created by artist Andrew McKeown to mark the millennium, and Eastford Square, a ghost town shopping parade that stands as yet another reminder of the working class roots that will soon be swept away. And as I reach Miles Platting a discarded yoga ball floats in the water, as a gaggle of geese fight for the noodles a couple have just put out for them on the banking. Coincidentally another sculpture by Andrew McKeown also sits here in Victoria Mill Park, named after yet another handsome old cotton mill.
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