Gritstone Trail
Waymarked Way · Cheshire
1,500
XP
a 3-day route
643 m
343 m
43 m
Scroll along the route · tap the chart to find a point on the map
Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
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Waze- Gritstone Trail (Disley - River Dane) · 33 km
- Gritstone Trail (Rushton Spencer - Kidsgrove) · 20.1 km
- Gritstone Trail (River Dane - Rushton Spencer) · 2.2 km
Steep walk
Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
1348 m
Drop
1433 m
Highest
408 m
Lowest
121 m
Walking time
about 13 h 16 min
A 3-day route, walked in stages. 1,500 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.
Which way round
Downhill: Easy first 3.8 km, climbs 14% for 500 m near the end, comes down 17% for 870 m midway.
Uphill: Easy first 4.0 km, climbs 17% for 870 m midway, comes down 14% for 500 m early on.
Shown as the descent, the way a graded trail like this is ridden — the climb back up is usually the forest road.
Main descent: km 28.4–33.0, from 384 m to 156 m.
How the 55.1 km splits
Flat
22.4 km
Climbing
15.8 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
1.2 km
Descending
13.3 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.7 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
1.7 km
Link it with other walks
Staffordshire Way
Shares 9.3 km of path · meets at km 33.5, 34.1, 34.4…152.97 km
South Cheshire Market Towns Trail
Shares 7.0 km of path · meets at km 39.7, 48.868.43 km
Peak District Boundary Walk
Shares 3.6 km of path · meets at km 3.3, 3.7, 9.6…308.8 km
Dane Valley Way
Shares 3.6 km of path · meets at km 31.6, 33.077.4 km
Lyme South Perimeter Walk
Shares 3.0 km of path · meets at km 1.6, 5.410.9 km
Cheshire Ring Canal Walk
Shares 2.9 km of path · meets at km 48.7153.14 km
Tegg’s Nose Country Park Trail
Shares 2.0 km of path · meets at km 17.24.56 km
Lime Avenue Ponds Walk
Shares 1.4 km of path · meets at km 3.33.14 km
Paddock Cottage Walk
Shares 0.7 km of path · meets at km 3.62.74 km
A Walk to the Lantern at Lyme
Shares 0.6 km of path · meets at km 2.72.07 km