BBC Countryfile Magazine

04 GREATER MANCHESTER DOVE STONE RESERVOIR

5.5 miles/8.8km

3.5 hours

Moderate

146m

Tucked into a huge glacier-carved embayment in the South Pennines, Oldham’s Dove Stone Reservoir is an RSPB reserve encompassing water, woodland and moor. Rakes of immense cliffs stride above, backed by Saddleworth’s moorlands.

This extremely scenic winter walk first threads betwixt water

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