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