WALKS | Discovering New Winter Nation Park Walks in Staffordshire

January 6, 2025

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I really feel extraordinarily lucky to have had an prolonged Christmas break, with an entire superb 2 weeks off. I really like strolling in winter and used the AllTrails app to seek out native nation parks, all underneath an hour away that I didn’t know existed. Right here I share a few these walks at nation parks in north Staffordshire.

Discovering More Local Country Park Walks This Winter

Earlier than I get into it, regardless of mentioning AllTrails a number of instances, this submit just isn’t a collaboration, it’s an app I subscribe to and one thing I take advantage of and it deserves some kudos!

An enormous hill stroll is all good, however generally, after the surplus of Christmas, all we would like is to blow away the cobwebs for an hour or two. While a rustic park won’t be my first alternative of locations to stroll, this winter I found that they will present a lot greater than I imagined.

I’ve admitted earlier than that I’m not nice at navigation, or it’s in all probability fairer to say, I’m not assured in my talents which implies after I go for a solo stroll, I don’t just like the added nervousness of doubtless wandering off-route.

Greenway Bank Country Park Winter Walk — *Greenway Financial institution Nation Park, Brown Edge*

I began utilizing the AllTrails app a number of years in the past however have solely not too long ago began actively utilizing it extra, specifically, to find new locations to stroll. Dwelling in Cheshire means each Derbyshire and Staffordshire are fast to get to, and each Silverdale Nation Park and Greenway Financial institution Nation Park each occurred to be in Staffordshire.

Removed from pedestrian, among the nation parks I found over Christmas and the brand new yr, offered the whole lot I normally search for in a stroll – prompting a change in angle in the direction of what I had beforehand regarded, slightly dismissively, as being a considerably uninteresting alternative for a stroll.

Greenway Financial institution Nation Park, Staffordshire Moorlands

AllTrails 6.3k Greenway Financial institution Heritage Path Round Route

I adopted the Greenway Financial institution Heritage Path which is a 6.3k round route with good parking that’s free, and bathroom services (relying on which carpark you select).

The route is simple to comply with and is usually flat, with a few brief inclines, offering loads of further paths to discover. The stroll takes in ruins, historical woodland, reservoirs, a waterfall, streams and even a sacred effectively.

With plenty of stops and taking it very sluggish on an icy winter day, it took underneath 2 hours to finish however I discovered greater than sufficient to maintain me and it is a nation park I’ll be returning to to see the way it adjustments every season.

Silverdale Country Park — *Silverdale Nation Park*

Silverdale Nation Park, Silverdale, Staffordshire

AllTrails 2.9k Silverdale Nation Park, The Void & Southern Pool Round

This can be a beautiful simple 2.9k round strolling route round a park, created on the positioning of a former colliery, now a Website of Organic Significance. Parking right here is free, however restricted.

The route could be very simple to comply with and even within the depths of winter, it was teeming with fowl life. Well-liked with canine walkers, there’s a sluggish downhill part to start with adopted by a shorter, steeper uphill part in the direction of the tip of the stroll.

I really like walks with loads of benches and seating – for me a stroll is one thing I like to do at a leisurely tempo and I at all times search someplace quiet to take a seat and do a nature meditation too, which helps me to get essentially the most out of a stroll and actually join with the vitality of a spot.

This little nation park is ideal for a stretch of the legs with some surprisingly fairly views given it’s so near Newcastle-Underneath-Lyme metropolis centre. Early morning it was very quiet, although by the point I used to be leaving it had began to get somewhat busier.