Torrs Riverside Park & Millennium Walkway at the Torrs Gorge
Located at the town of New Mills the Torrs Gorge is always a decent place to visit. It is genuinely fascinating to see such a mix of geological features and magnificent industrial heritage.
I’m not going to write a great deal here as there’s information in a previous post that you can read at this link.
But if you’re in a hurry have a quick read of this information which is a cut and paste from the Visit New Mills web site.
The web site is an ideal place to find out information about the town
The heart of New Mills is the Torrs sandstone gorge where the rivers Sett and Goyt meet. The entire length of the Torrs was developed as an industrial site powered first by water, then by steam and electricity. During the Industrial Revolution New Mills had a significant industry in cotton spinning, bleaching and calico printing. Much of its fascinating heritage remains to be explored, with towering railway viaducts, elegant bridges and the remains of mills on the banks of the river, including the grade II listed Torr Vale Mill which, at 210 years of continuous use, was the UK’s longest running textile mill.
The Torrs Riverside Park is now a pleasant place of recreation: home to the award-winning Millennium Walkway, wildflower meadows running up to the scenic Peak Forest Canal, a rock climbing gritstone wall, and Archie, the community-owned hydroelectric turbine.
Picture set one
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Picture set two – the Millennium Walkway
These pictures are from the impressive and quite spectacular Millennium Walkway. The Walkway is suspended from the side of the gorge, above the River Goyt, and where the river flows over a large weir. Prior to the Walkway’s construction the gorge was impassable.
The steel Walkway is 175 yards long and links to the Torrs Riverside Park.
The structure has won a number of awards including the top prize in the British Construction Industry Awards in 2000.
If you haven’t been that way, I’d say it really is worth checking out.
You can find more info about the Millennium Walkway at this link and at this decent Peak District and Derbyshire’s visitor web site.
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Picture set three
We finished off with a short visit to the children play area at High Lea park which was just a short drive from The Torrs. There’s plenty of play equipment at the park for young children but to be honest it’s fair to say it would really benefit from a freshen up with a lick of paint. That aside it’s a decent enough area for children to run off some energy.
We didn’t quite have time to check out the wooded area to walk through, with its small pond or indeed New Mills Community Orchard … maybe that’s something for next time
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