Family Walks
Tiny Treks – Dove Stone Reservoir
Start: Dove Stone Reservoir Greenfield, Oldham, Greater Manchester OL3 7NE
Facilities: Toilets, Parking (Pay and Display). Refreshment vans often sell at weekends and summer holidays.
Walk: Approx 2.5 miles (1.5 hrs)
Walk instructions
Facilities: Toilets, Parking (Pay and Display). Refreshment vans often sell at weekends and summer holidays.
Walk: Approx 2.5 miles (1.5 hrs)
Walk instructions
1. Starting from Dove Stone car park, walk up to the right end of the dam and to a well defined path.
This route is anticlockwise around the reservoir.
2. Just past the boat park there is a “A ' Life for a Life' Memorial Forest” (planting started 1999). Walk into
the forest (Q1) through the gate towards the water, just before reaching the water the path goes to the
right until you reach the exit gate.
3. Turn left onto the main tarmac path, and left over a small bridge (Q2, Q3, Q4). This path meanders
upwards and through a stile.
4. Passing a small wood on the left side (Q5). Through the next stile is Ashworth Gap on the right and the
remains of Ashworth House (Q6) with its picnic tables on the left.
5. The path continues onwards and crosses between two reservoirs (Q7) Yeoman Hey and Dove Stone.
6. When you have passed between the two reservoirs turn left and almost immediate left through another stile.
You will now be walking along the opposite side of the reservoir.
7. Continue along this path (Q8) until you reach the end of the reservoir.
This route is anticlockwise around the reservoir.
2. Just past the boat park there is a “A ' Life for a Life' Memorial Forest” (planting started 1999). Walk into
the forest (Q1) through the gate towards the water, just before reaching the water the path goes to the
right until you reach the exit gate.
3. Turn left onto the main tarmac path, and left over a small bridge (Q2, Q3, Q4). This path meanders
upwards and through a stile.
4. Passing a small wood on the left side (Q5). Through the next stile is Ashworth Gap on the right and the
remains of Ashworth House (Q6) with its picnic tables on the left.
5. The path continues onwards and crosses between two reservoirs (Q7) Yeoman Hey and Dove Stone.
6. When you have passed between the two reservoirs turn left and almost immediate left through another stile.
You will now be walking along the opposite side of the reservoir.
7. Continue along this path (Q8) until you reach the end of the reservoir.
8. Turn left and walk along the dam embankment ret
