In case you missed it, the GM Ringway has been recently featured (twice) in the Manchester Evening News.

One article is focused on the GM Ringway’s founder, Dr Andrew Read, which talks about how Andrew developed the concept of the GM Ringway trail, and how that led to him being commissioned to edit a new book of Greater Manchester circular walks. You can now read that interview here via MSN (avoiding the MEN paywall).

Another recent MEN story is about how to enjoy the arrival of spring by going for a walk, highlighting in particular how the GM Ringway can be enjoyed from the very heart of Manchester’s city centre. You can read that article here.

People who have discovered the GM Ringway recently may not be aware that the trail has also enjoyed some fantastic national media coverage over the last two years.

For example, there’s a piece in The Guardian  that describes walking Stage 16 (Wigan to Leigh) which concludes: “Ringway was once what locals called Manchester airport. It’s fitting and fabulous that it’s now the name of a low-carbon, ultra-local, urban-dweller-friendly circular long-distance trail”.

While this article in The Daily Telegraph (which is unfortunately now paywalled), describes how the GM Ringway allows walkers to “explore unspoiled, unpeopled moorlands, a ravine that evokes Utah’s cowboy country, and one of the UK’s highest bodies of water”.

Over on BBC Sounds, you can also still access an episode of Radio Four’s Ramblings featuring Clare Balding trying out Stage 6 of the GM Ringway trail (Strines to Marple). En route Clare chats to GM Ringway founder, Andrew Read, meets several GM Ringway volunteers, and enjoys a reading from the classic children’s book, The Railway Children (said to have been inspired by Marple station and the surrounding area), by local resident Craig Wright.

Of course, for all the latest news and stories from the GM Ringway team themselves, you can check back here on the GM Ringway website.

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