A Circular series around The Rixton & Glazebrook area - The series is along a mixture of Public footpaths and country roads and is around 3.5 miles in length.
This township is the most easterly one of the hundred. It lies along the course of the Mersey. The Glazebrook, a fair-sized stream, forms the boundary between this and the hundred of Salford; it flows through marshy meadows, its course marked by luxuriant poplar trees, to join the Mersey.
The geological formation is triassic. A fault which traverses the township from north-west to south-east has thrown up the upper mottled sandstone of the bunter series in the south-western part. The same beds occur also in the northern angle from Glazebrook station northward. The remainder of the township, forming a triangle of which the apex extends into Risley to a point between the old and new halls, having the base along the Mersey, consists of the basement beds to the north and the waterstones of the keuper series to the south, the dividing line extending from Moss Side to Hollins Green.
To find out more - Visit <a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol3/pp334-340">Here</a>
We managed to do this with a Buggy - It is possible to do so put can be hardwork in places... It is unfortunately not wheelchair friendly. There are 2 styles right at the beginning of the route.