オークメアの湖・トップ5

デラメアの森を抜ける素敵なライド。MTBでもeMTBでも間違いないでしょう。ニューペールから森に入り、ホリデーロッジまでたくさんのトレイルを回り、ウォータールーレーンに出ました。

Great ride , some good climbs

It does get busy around the visitors' centre and the Gruffalo trail. However, if you ride up Pale Hill and follow the perimeter of the forest, there are plenty of quiet trails to explore. Keep your eyes peeled for single tracks going through the forest, there lots of off-the-beaten-path routes to follow if you look for them.

amazing walk just cant take the path next to the hatch mere nature reserve because it's very deep mud at the moment

Could become overgrown in summer or muddy if wet. Interest spot to see

Blakemere Moss at Delamere Forest is a reclaimed wetland area. The Moss was originally formed from two kettle holes (water filled hollows formed by a detached mass of glacial ice melted in situ towards the end of the last ice age). Delamere Forest is made up of more than 100 peatland basins and includes several sites of rare 'quaking' bogland, a phenomenon in which sphagnum mosses form a carpet above peaty water that appears to tremble when trodden on. The area was drained from the 1800's, supposedly by prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars and planted with trees, (mainly oak and Scot's Pine) between 1793-1815 to provide timber for shipbuilding. The Forestry Commission planted the moss with pine and western hemlock during the 1940s, which proved uneconomic. In the late 1990's the Commission allowed the area to re-flood again naturally.

Marbury Country Park boasts avenues of lime trees, an arboretum, a wildlife-rich mere, and even has an outdoor swimming pool (£8 for adults, £5 for children). The park is nestled within Northwich Community Woodlands, where former industrial land is gradually being reclaimed by nature. For more information, visit: https://www.visitcheshire.com/things-to-do/marbury-country-park-and-outdoor-pool-p32091.

Croxton Flash, on the east bank of the Trent and Mersey Canal, was formed because of mining subsidence. The lake is one of many similar lakes in the area created this way, which are referred to locally as ‘flashes’. Croxton Flash is home to many birds and insects.