 Hello, thank you for joining me. I've just arrived at Style Railway Station. I haven't come by train though. I've come in my larder What we're going to do in today's video, we're going to do something a little bit different. This isn't a history video as such Obviously up the road is quarry bank mill. We're not going to go there But we are going to go to some of the National Trust lands and we're going to go to style village And we're going to go and walk along the river Bolin because I've been looking at the OS map recently of this area And I noticed a footpath that looked rather exciting because it goes Very close to Manchester Airport. In fact, it goes so close It's actually going to go under the runway and I saw that and I thought I've got to go down that footpath So here we are. We're at style. We're going to jump in my lard I'm going to drive up to the village of style and then we're going to go and Hunting for footpaths that go under runways So here we are. We've arrived at style in my larder. What we're going to do We're going to head up towards the village. We're going to walk through the old workers village We're not actually going into any of the buildings, but it is quite an exciting day If you come to quarry bank mill You see the the big old mill and you can go you get tours of some of the workers houses and it really is Worth doing and so I did that last year. I had a great time. I didn't actually make a video Occasionally I sometimes go out and think I won't make a video today Most of those days I end up making a video but on that occasion I didn't actually make a video, but I looked around the whole place and really enjoyed it So that really is worth coming to see but today we're going down into the country park and We're going to follow River Bollin as I said, but it's really the fact that I've looked on them The OS map and seen this footpath that goes under the runway of Manchester Airport That's kind of what's brought us here But as we walk along look at here's some of the lovely houses you get in the village of style so I'm going to carry on walking up here and Soon we shall be able to get into the style estate properly So not much further just just a little way along here so I just walked up the road and Here we come into the style estate proper. So you can see there is the national trust sign which Says style. So we are officially in a national trust place now We're going to walk down this cobbled road up here. There's an interesting church. It's a non conformist Church, which is you know, the church the workers would have gone to So like I said, you and we're not we're not actually here to sort of have a look in and out all the buildings At quarry-bank mill, but I do recommend doing it They've even got steam engines in quarry-bank mill not not as in The railway or the road type but as in stationary steam engines. So, you know, it's it's a great day out You you really ought to come here But today we're going to to look for this footpath that takes under, you know I just sort of it's one of those things. I saw it on the map and until I've been there I'm just not gonna stop talking about it. I've kind of got to take myself to see I'm just gonna show this to you if you have a look over there See those houses. I had a look in one of them last year when I came here and Visited National Trust probably do tours of those houses and you can see them just as they would have been in in their day So I'm gonna carry on down here and further down into style So I've had a very nice walk down through the woodlands and we are now heading down towards the River Bolly So you can just see the river down down there. There's been a stream Flowing down below us down there quite a steep drop. So the stream is obviously a tributary of the River Bolly now I've said about the mill. I said we're not going there today But you know, it's something worth doing if you were visiting the mill as well Then you're the pre-parts in the mills car park. You could have walked down the way we came you get to hear this is the Gates to the garden. So this is a little shed you show them your ticket to show you've paid to come into the site And then that would admit you to the gardens and onto the mill But where we are now this is This is a permissive path. I believe so, you know, it's you can come down here pretty much whenever you like So that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna follow this path over this Nice little bridge here and walk beside the River Bolly. We've got a lot to do before we do that There's like a little beach and there's some steps down to it. So we'll go down have a really close look at River Bolly So I will carry on down there. I don't know if the sound's picking it out But I can hear the sound of aircraft engine So as nice and as tranquil and as peaceful as this place looks it is nice and tranquil and peaceful but Get the odd interruption from aircraft noises, but you know, that's um, it doesn't bother me to be honest So come down here get a nice look at the bridge there There you go The bridge we just walked over The water flows into the River Bolly, so I'm gonna follow it on the path up there I'm gonna explore River Bolly until we get to the runway of Manchester Airport I've followed the meanderan River Bolly all around here So only 50 yards or so the river is over there and it is literally just down there So it's gone right around on this big meander now It's at this point on the path here if I follow the path Straight on along the river. It'll take me back up to style So later on when I walk back up to my car, that's where I'll be going. Well, what we're gonna do We're gonna go over this bridge. It's called the oxbow bridge That's because if it ever happens in about a million years time when the water goes straight across there And it's no longer is a meander This bit of water here will be known as an oxbow lake So we're gonna cross the oxbow bridge So it's very optimistic to call it that because like I said, it's probably about a million years away this section of water From becoming an oxbow lake, but you know, it's a nice name. You get more little beaches on the river and I'm gonna continue following the footpath along Maybe not quite the banks of the River Bolly, but on and off the banks of River Bolly until we get to that The runway of Manchester Airport Well, the footpath now has taken us some distance above the River Bolly. You can see it down there There's a weird down there. Now the area we're heading down for is known as Giants Castle I'm not sure why but this is where there'd be another bridge and we're crossed back onto the other side of the river So I believe this is Giants Castle. I don't know why but that's what it's called on the OS map So if you you know know and want to comment and tell me please do and I think that's a natural We're actually what we're looking at looking at the shape of it. There's another one around the corner. So keep going and See what we find so you see the water is very clear you clearly see the stone at the bottom of it There's another bridge ahead so we're heading towards We're gonna cross the river and the footpath, you know that it follows the river bank I'm not sure exactly which way it's gonna go But it's gonna take us as I keep saying towards Manchester Airport as a sign I just noticed it says the bridge is called Giants Castle Bridge. It's definitely Giants Castle Isn't that really nice? Natural weird there. I'll have another look actually from on the bridge itself You go to Giants Castle Bridge Up here Really nice And there is the natural weir and it looks like once I've crossed the bridge I've got some climbing up a Lot of steps Look at that. There's a little stream going up there I've got all those steps now. So I'm gonna climb up and keep going I'm just coming to the end of the National Trusts land the style of state. So There we go. There's the sign hiding in the trees and The path we've been following is the North Cheshire Way. Have a look at these little signs down here So maybe one day. I know I do say this a lot maybe one day, but maybe one day We can walk to North Cheshire Way and I'll make a whole series of videos I don't know when that'll be but you know be something I'd like to do I'm gonna go up there. You can see people part here to enjoy the walk. I've just enjoyed This must be What was once the old road? Because if we have a look at the river bolling from here, so we will Find a bolling again if ever up. You can see the new road there. There's a big in there I'm gonna carry on up here and cross the main road and then pick up the footpath again and Continue so I get to these tunnels and then what I'm gonna do. I've got a walk all the way back Back through the style of state, which is you know, very nice walk I'm gonna go all the way back through there because my car is still up at style probably now two and a half miles away So I've got all the way back to style Pick up the car and then my plan is to drive us Right round so I'm gonna have to go. I mean this won't all be on the video I'm gonna go drive down to Wilmslow come back up here Because this road not this road, but the one on the other side of the hedge the new road is What also goes through a tunnel under Manchester airport So we're then gonna drive through those tunnels under Manchester airport So we're gonna go when I say airport I mean actually just the runway drive through the tunnels under the runway at Manchester airport So it really is probably one of the most Unusual walks and drives. I've ever done but you know, that's what I like to do. That's interesting There's another there's another entrance to the style of state there I might go about that way might be a slightly shorter route But I wanted to follow the river ball in as much as possible. So when I get to here And I'm not entirely sure where to go. So, oh, yeah, there's a big roundabout I'm gonna go off down there and somewhere when I was around about I should find the footpath I'll be able to continue till we get to the runway Well the footpath has now taken on a very different form No longer are we following the river Ball in we're out here on this bank and over there is yeah Well, you can clearly see the control tower. You can see all the aeroplanes waiting There's three terminals at the airport. So we're gonna follow this path. It goes down there So that's your two runways. So run one way ends about over there It's this second one that comes right down Out into the countryside and that's the one we're gonna go underneath So the footpath only goes under one runway if you drive which we're gonna do later You'll go under the two runways. So you go through one tunnel and then Come out into the open for a little bit and you go through the second tunnel under the second runways This really is quite an extraordinary Footpath is just so different to Probably any footpath. I've ever walked down before that was why you know when I saw on the map I just had to come and do it but anyway very soon. We shall be Going underneath the runway So after walking and walking I've probably walked at least three miles from where I left my car Up at style. I'm coming down towards the river Bolin again. I can hear the water and I can see the tunnel. It's Massive look at it. It's huge. I did not I didn't really know what to expect but that Let's go up onto this bridge. We're going through the tunnel. Let's go into the bridge and have a look that is so Huge I've never seen such a big a big arched tunnel in my life before that's amazing So that's what we've walked all this way to see so As I stand here on the river Bolin the next job is now to Go and and walk through that is just So we go down we'll walk through I probably won't film all the way through but I certainly show you when we get to the other side So yeah, it's um, I think now it's really been worth it this walk It's like I said it's been a very very long walk If you come to quarry bank mill when you're going for a nice sunny day out I don't suggest you do this walk if you like me And you're not walking on by rivers and looking for tunnels and you want to walk a long way then you know do come here, but So into the tunnel we go it's not dark at all. It's so big So when you land in an aeroplane in Manchester, yeah, you land on top of this Huge there's a weird stuff here. In fact, it's about four years in the course of the tunnel So I'll do I'll show you this we're now. I'm gonna walk through to the other side of tunnel and then I'll show you Things that are beneath airports. I'm gonna keep walking and when we get to the other end I'll let you see what I find Most of the other ends are walked through what seems to be the amplified sound of water The echoes and sound the water's echoing. So you just got this constant sound of water Which is quite a nice relaxing sort of sound. I just can't believe just how vast this is, you know, it's Can't describe what you can probably fit like you can fit a row of houses in here or a row of you know blocks of flats I should think It's just enormous I've just never seen anything quite like it. I don't think ever Before obviously I've been through lots of tunnels long and short, but I've never ever seen a tunnel Like this. Look, even as I walk away. You can't even see there we go m m so it's built in 2000 you know when they extended the runway so Before that you only had the one runway, but there we go. We've just come underneath the runway in Manchester airport Because if that wasn't enough, I've got to go all the way back now We're going to go under the other two tunnels in my lard. So we can walk all the way back and Let's go for drive under the runways now. We've walked under them. Now. Let's drive under them Well, I'm now walking back to my car at Stiles. So I said, you know, I would have had a long walk ahead of me So I've done that long walk. I've nearly finished but I came a slightly different way up through the Stiles Country Park because I suddenly thought there's one thing I didn't show you this bridge here It's called the Chapel Bridge. It's an almost sort of fairytale mystical like bridge here up in the gorge Spanning the gorge here. Well, it's a little sign. It says the Chapel Bridge So what I'm going to do I'm going to take you over the bridge and I'm going to continue ascending the gorge on the other side and From there I'll get back to my car and then as I said, we're going to get in the car I'm going to go for drive go through the other tunnels So it seems funny we've gone from Stiles to Manchester airport back to Stiles We're going to go back to Manchester airport. Let's have a look at this bridge And down below us. I wouldn't exactly say they're raging water There's a trickle of a stream down right down there below the leaves And on this side you might see the stream a bit better The path then goes along zigzags up there. I can see a bench right up there Just see where that gentleman's standing just about above him. There's a bench up there So I'm going to make more up there and then I won't have too far to go to get back to my car So onwards and upwards So we're now in the car. We've driven around from Stiles. It's quite a long way around Even though it wasn't that far. We're just passing a hotel I went in there for a bike and I'll pay back to Stiles The forward stop there for a bike. This bridge here is over the river Bollitt Now this roundabout is where we In the wrong gear where we had to walk cross So we walked from the road over there We came across here and we went up some steps Just up there. Now the tunnel is ahead of us. We're just coming up to it now So ahead of us now is the tunnel under the newer of the wrong base And then we'll go through this one and look ahead now we can see We're just coming into the tunnel. Not as exciting and vast as what we went through on the river Bollitt More just the square box this one And what we went through on the river Bollitt really was so big and vast and exciting Now we're in between the two runways so we left one tunnel We're going into the older tunnel now And again it's um it's quite exciting but nothing like as exciting as that one We drove through onto the river Bollitt and that was a really nice surprise Just how big and exciting it was So this one's going on quite a long way We're just coming to the end of the tunnel now So I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you very much for watching And it's really worth going to Cory Bag Mill Maybe not walking quite as far as I did But you know if you want to see the tunnel you could park at that hotel And walk there like I did Because that tunnel that we walked through was just really exciting So thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe, comment Thanks very much. Goodbye