Photo : New Mills
Torrs Millennium Walkway. Location: In the centre of New Mills.
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The Chestnut Centre, Castleton Road (A625) Chapel-en-le-Frith,
High Peak Derbyshire SK23 0QS. Tel: 01298 814099. Conservation
Park, Otter Haven & Owl Sanctuary - houses Europe's largest
collection of multi -specied otters & owls including Britain's
only pair of giant otters. About 4 miles south east of New Mills.
Torrs Millennium Walkway,
New Mills, Derbyshire. The walkway provides a route through the
previously impassable gritstone gorge at Torrs, New Mills. The
gorge is an area of exceptional natural beauty and unique industrial
archaeological heritage. An elevated 160m long cantilevered walkway
provides the important ‘missing link’ for the Mid Shires
Way, allowing people to walk the whole scenic, 275 mile trail.
Location: In the centre of New Mills.
Lyme Park, Disley, Stockport, Cheshire SK12 2NX. Tel: 01663 762023.
One of the grandest buildings in Cheshire, Lyme Park was originally
a Tudor house and transformed into an Italianate palace by the
Venetian architect Leoni. The house is set in several hundred
acres of parkland and woodland where deer abound. It is bordered
by a sunken Dutch garden, rose gardens and a great conservatory
set above an attractive lake. National Trust. Charges apply.
About 3 miles south of New Mills.
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