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Teggs Nose to White Nancy Circular Walk | 7 Miles

February 2, 2023 CIRCULAR WALKS, MEDIUM WALKS 4-9 MILES, PEAK DISTRICT WALKS

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This Peak District walk (just) takes you from Teggs Nose to White Nancy, exploring the beautiful countryside near Macclesfield and Bollington with its rolling hills and farmland. This 6.5 mile walk starts in the Teggs Nose Country Park.

White Nancy, Bollington

What is White Nancy?

White Nancy is an unusually shaped structure on Kerridge Hill in Bollington, visible for miles around. It was built as a summer house or folly in 1817 to commemorate the victory at Waterloo. Originally White Nancy was a single room structure with a doorway, but this has since been sealed up. The structure is usually painted white but has had various designs painted on it in the past, including various Christmas themed designs, Remembrance poppies and more. The name comes from the name of the lead horse who transported all the materials for building the structure. How lovely!

 

White Nancy is a popular landmark on the Gritstone Trail, and the Peak District Boundary Walk also runs past. The Gritstone Trail is a 34 mile (55km) trail following the gritstone edges between the Peak District and the Cheshire Plains.

 

This Teggs Nose to White Nancy walk starts in the Teggs Nose Country Park car park. We headed out onto the road and after a short distance crossed over to pick up a footpath over the fields near the kennels. We walked over the fields, crossed Buxton New Road and headed down the hill, following the Gritstone Trail.

A snowy path across a field

A barn in a snowy field

Gritstone Trail sign post

The Gritstone Trail is well marked and takes you through meadows full of native flowers (in Spring and Summer). There was no such loveliness when we visited sadly – we just had a lot of grass and mud!

 

Following the Trail, we soon headed out onto Berristall Lane and then wandered down to Tower Folly, a small castle in someone’s garden! We turned left out onto Hawkins Lane before picking up a footpath which led downhill, then we walked through farmland and a small copse.

Gritstone Trail with Kerridge Hill in the background

Gritstone Trail with Kerridge Hill in the background

A footpath signpost

The footpath isn’t the easiest to spot!

A cockerel

We passed a smallholding with some of the best chickens ever (with very 1980s style hair!) and then picked up a track leading up to White Nancy. There is a short steep climb to the top, with part of the path being steps.

 

White Nancy has amazing views in most directions, including the mountains of North Wales and the Pennines to the North and East.

White Nancy, Bollington

We set off south from White Nancy over the ridge of Kerridge Hill towards the trig point at the summit of Kerridge Hill.

Kerridge Hill trig point

Trig point bagged, we made our way carefully down Kerridge Hill. It was very muddy and slippery, and I nearly ended up falling over a few times!

 

The footpath leads out onto Rainow Road, which we followed for a short distance. The footpath takes you up a driveway into a cattle farm, and the footpath isn’t very clear (on the map you’ll see we had a minor detour!). Head round to the right once you’re in the farm yard, and to the left hand side of the large metal gate there is a super skinny wooden pallet gate you can get through and which will put you on the right footpath.

A farm track

A calf peering over a stable door

A farmyard

Looking back through the wooden pallet gate. We entered the farmyard through a gate next to the far metal gate and should have walked straight across to this point. It’s a very narrow gap between the metal gate post and the barn though.

We then set off over the fields, before heading up over Back Eddisbury Road. At the junction, we turned left onto an unmade track which brought us almost back to the Teggs Nose Country Park car park.

 

This walk gave us a small taste of the Gritstone Trail, and I’m sure we’ll get round to walking the whole thing at some point soon.

 

 


 

Teggs Nose to White Nancy Walk Map: 

 

 

Walk Map (Opens in OS Maps): White Nancy and Kerridge Hill Trig Point

Parking: Tegg’s Nose Country Park, Buxton Old Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 0AP W3W:/// lengthen.textiles.envelope (Pay and Display)

Facilities: Toilets and tea rooms in the car park

Walk Time: 2-3 hours

Difficulty: ▲▲

Distance: 6.6 miles (10.6km)

Trig Points Bagged: None (Kerridge Hill isn’t on the Peak District trig points list)

Peak District Peaks Bagged: None

Peak District Ethels Bagged: None

 

 

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Hello! I’m Jo! Welcome to The Wandering Wildflower, an outdoors lifestyle blog focusing on family walks in the Peak District, a place we love exploring. I want to share the Peak District hidden gems and show you there’s so much more than the honeypot places. When I’m not dragging my husband and now 11 year old out on Peak District walks or up mountains, I can be found on planning my next moorland walk or plotting a Geocache walk (and seeing where the nearest pub is!). I love the hills but hate the heights, so trig bagging is – er- fun!

 

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