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(S/E) From Waters Reach front door of the cottage, turn left and walk past the Navigation Inn. Cross the canal and then the A6 overbridge.
Turn right up Silk Hill, and follow the narrow lane uphill for a little over quarter of a mile. Just before the top of the hill, by a telephone kiosk, turn right into a farm drive (signposted “Shepherd’s Cottage”). Bear right past the farmhouse and a stone barn conversion, and exit via a hand-gate at the bottom of the yard.
(1) Cross a field and join a tarmac path leading downhill above an industrial site. Turn right through a metal kissing gate and descend to an enclosed path alongside the River Goyt, where you bear left.
(2) On emerging into Woodbrook, turn right over the first bridge over the river, the old tramway bridge. Pass a car park to reach the canal basin.
(3) Pass to the right of the wharf building and cross a footbridge over a spillway to join the canal towpath. Follow the towpath under a modern bridge carrying the Tesco access road.
(4) When you reach the canal junction, cross the footbridge on your right and turn right to follow the Bugsworth Arm, shortly passing under the A6. Follow the towpath back to the Navigation Inn. Turn left to return to Waters Reach. (S/E)
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