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TP4172 - Kerridge Hill | TrigpointingUK https://share.google/KGixUdmRQlst3dVHN

lovely steep walk but we'll worth the views

All climbs should have a cafe like this at the summit

"Hole in the Wall" Heritage, Steps - Steep Steps ! Please Take Care ! You are welcome to use these historic steps built at the same time as the Macclesfield Canal in 1830. Please be aware they are steep and there are 43 so you need to take care when using them and do so at your own risk. Please use the hand rails which are modern and are provided for your safety. Aqueduct Cottage at the top of these steps in the past was used as a resting place for the "boatmen" on the canal and had a stabling facility for the ponies that towed the barges. You can walk along the towpath north to Poynton and south to Macclesfield. Please enjoy our industrial heritage.

‘I got the shock of my life when I went in the Adelphi for the first time - you worked stripped - you just wore trousers and bare feet. The temperature was roughly a hundred degrees. Then, during the war, they started issuing us with rope-soled sandals. You couldn't wear shoes because the floor was just like an oil slick - oiling all those spindles’. Excerpt taken from a Bridgend Heritage Trail 8 Leaflet

One famous Bollingtonian Terry Waite was born at No.60 Wellington Road, opposite the Waterhouse. Waite was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, in the 1980s. As an envoy for the Church of England, he travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of four hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy. He was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991. After his release he wrote Taken on Trust (1994), a memoir about his experiences, and became involved in humanitarian causes and charitable work.

In the 1950s a place had been desperately needed for Bollington's disabled children and the mill's gatehouse subsequently housed the Bollington Spastic Clinic. It was a daunting task but one that Bollington took to its heart. Within weeks, Mr. lan Oliver of the Mill offered us the brand-new nursery that had been built for his employers' children, as they preferred to stay in the building already in use. Slowly the children thrived and everyone, even though some were terribly disabled, blossomed in the love and care they received.' The Waterhouse Mill was demolished in 1962 but The Waterhouse, home of the Oliver family and now the Bollington Medical Centre.

A steep climb or decent but worth it