Whaley Bridge

High Peak Borough, Derbyshire, England.
Map SK012816 OS Landranger 110 or Explorer OL1.

Whaley Bridge, High Peak SK23
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Whaley Bridge

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

Just off the A6 between Buxton and Stockport.

BUS: Mondays to Saturdays: at least 2 per hour to Buxton, Stockport and Manchester Airport; at least 6 services per day to New Mills; 3 services per day to Macclesfield. Sundays: hourly to Buxton, Stockport and Manchester Airport; 3 services to Macclesfield; 2 services to New Mills. Also at Furness Vale (about 2km): Every Day: every 2 hours to Manchester and Derby; 3 per day to Chesterfield.

TRAIN: Every Day: at least 1 per hour from Buxton, Stockport and Manchester.

CAR: there is a public Car Park adjacent to the main Well Dressing at the Canal Basin. Elsewhere in the town on-street parking is relatively easy.

WELL DRESSING: In 2008, there were eight:

4 at the Canal Basin (junction of Bingswood Avenue and Tom Brad's Croft - take Canal Street leading off Buxton Road in the town centre - signposted Bingswood Industrial Estate - and follow the signs for the Car Park)
at the Uniting Church (on Buxton Road, just north of the railway bridge)
at the Primary School (on Buxton Road, just south of the railway bridge)
at Holy Trinity Church (on Buxton Road, about 200m south of the Primary School)
on Park Road Green (on Macclesfield Road, at its junction with Reddish Road, about 250m from the Buxton Road traffic lights)

WELLS IN THE MAKING: one or more of the dressings is made over the course of the preceding few days in a marquee next to the Canal Wharf building. Contact Dorothy Markides 01663 733490 for further details.