You can start most of our local walks from one of these convenient car parks (see map below).  Beware they are scheduled to close at dusk. 

There is a visitors centre at Greenway Bank. The Knypersely Lake car park can often be very busy but it is an excellent place to start and end many of the walks and the kids love feeding the birds. 

We have to drive to get to this route but it makes an occassional change from the walks nearer to our gate. This route, which starts from the car park by the minature steam train station, is ideal for walking and running although the first 3.75 km along the old railway track can seem to drag a little, particularly towards the end, but the return route is varied and takes you past an old house, an assortment of holiday homes and the yatch club before returning to the old railway line via the path over the dam.

This route could be used as a walking route, starting and finishing at the car park adjacent to Knypersley Reservoir, but we use it for an out and back running route. From the car park out along the footpath and clockwise round the Serpentine to the far end of the middle dam, then continuing on the lakeside path, still clockwise around the reservoir as far as the Wardens Tower (or, as it is commonly known, "the Castle") then left up towards the the Waterfall path. The route then heads right along to the waterfall up the steps and then down past the rocks, keeping left, completing the loop back down to the Castle, then following the returning to the car park along the reverse of the outward route.

In bad weather when the dog needs a walk this is our make do route. Entirely on roads to avoid the worst of the mud, short and quick walk but it seems to be enough to keep the dog happy. At other times we use this for a short run. Not worth making a special trip to walk these lanes. A detour over Marshes Hill common makes it much more interesting.

We don't usually walk this route as it is all on roads. This was tracked while we were out for a short run while trying to get fit again. Long gone are the time when we could run 10km in a lunch break, this distance is enough these days. We do have some walk route variations on this which use the footpaths, but we have not yet mapped them.

This is a longer walk, some of it through fields which can be muddy after prolonged wet weather. We lost the path a little between kilometers 5 and 6 when we tracked this route. We walked it the first time in the midst of winter and some of the roads and paths through Endon were extremely slippery. So take care.