Trail centres en route to Manchester

robinhood
robinhood Posts: 74
edited August 2011 in Routes
Morning all,

I'm heading up to Manchester in the next few weeks or so and was thinking about doing a trail centre loop to break the journey up a bit. I'll be travelling up from Cardiff and i know Cannock Chase is on the way but not sure if there are any shower facilities? :?

Any ideas or is there anywhere else not too far off course?
cheers

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  • bails87
    bails87 Posts: 12,998
    No showers at Cannock Chase. Plenty of service stations have showers though.
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  • kinmofo
    kinmofo Posts: 172
    you got lee quaarry just past manchester, in a tiny place called bacup. then about as far again from manchester u got gisburn forest.

    lee quarry is good. its my regular place.

    never been gizzy, would love to go sometime though.

    you can check youtube for video's of both places.
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  • ricardo_smooth
    ricardo_smooth Posts: 1,281
    all 3 mentioned don't have shower facilities i'm afraid
  • ricardo_smooth
    ricardo_smooth Posts: 1,281
    all 3 mentioned don't have shower facilities i'm afraid
  • robinhood
    robinhood Posts: 74
    Cheers for your help,

    Yeah I was thinking about Lee Quarry, but as Ricardo said, I know they don't have shower facilities there

    Might have to go with the service station idea!
  • 1mancity2
    1mancity2 Posts: 2,355
    Get yourself a camping shower around £10 (presuming your in a car/van) and away you go. If its nice and sunny leave outside so the sun will warm it up.
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  • welshkev
    welshkev Posts: 9,690
    it's not exactly on the way but if you went up either through the middle of wales or up through hereford & shrewsbury you could stop at llandegla.

    it's not 'on the way' but it's not a million miles out of the way either :D i go there on the way to chester regularly. takes about 3hrs 30 mins from cardiff and then another 1hr 30 mins onto manchester :D

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