Millennium Walkway in New Mills

Millennium Walkway New Mills

The Millennium Walkway is a spectacular structure you can marvel at while on a walk through the Goytside Meadows Nature reserve with a waterfalls and woodland to explore.

The Millennium Walkway is a 175-yard aerial walkway spanning a cliffside above the River Goyt which provides a route through the previously impassable gritstone gorge at Torrs, New Mills which is an area of exceptional natural beauty and unique industrial archaeological heritage.

An easy route from the car park to the Millennium Walkway

Roaring water along the river

How to get to the Millennium Walkway

From the car park, turn left and follow the cobbled road down and turn right. This is a gentle slope, but as its cobbles, it can be slippy. There is a hand rail, though. You will then come to a sign post, giving you a few route options, including Seff Valley Trail and The Torrs. Just follow signs to the Millennium Walkway.

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Top Tips

🥾 Easy walking route

🐕 Dog friendly

👶 Not fully Pushchair friendly as there are slopped and bumpy cobbled path, however there are alternative routes from the town to the Walkway

🏬 Close to town centre

🍔Places to eat after your walk in the Mill or in the town

🛝 Playground at High Lea Park

🚂Visit New Mills via the Train

🚌Visit via bus to help with the traffic in town

🚗Parking at Torr Top Street car park, SK22 4BS £2.60 (2023) for 4 hours, or free on a Sunday.

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Cobbles paths leading you the way

About the walkway:

The Millennium Walkway itself is quite spectacular. It is a 160m long walkway that links New Mills, the Torrs and the Riverside Park. Before it was built the Riverside Park was inaccessible. The Millennium Walkway is suspended from the side of the gorge, above the point where the river flows over a large weir. It's an innovative and futuristic structure, described as a steel spiders web.

Millennium Walkway

Cobbles slopped paths

As the bridge curves around the bend, you can look out over the river. As we had had quite a bit of rain before our visit, the river was full and had that amazing roaring noise of water crashing as it went down the weir. On the other side of the river is an old mill.

Millennium Walkway

After walking over the Walkway, we carried on along the path, which takes you through Goytside Meadows Nature reserve and along the River Goyt. We walked for about 1.5km and then turned back, but you could go further along for a longer walk. This part is woodland and can get muddy.

Goytside Meadows Nature reserve

Beautiful scenery

Getting a drink & snack:

Inside the mill at the Walkway there is a cafe to call into for a snack or lunch. After our walk, we headed into town and found plenty of cafes and pubs to choose from. We stopped into a small cafe for sandwiches and jacket potatoes.

Playground:

We didn't find it on this visit, but there is a fantastic park 10 minutes walk from the car park called High Lea Park with lots of very unique & fun play equipment. It also has the most stunning flower garden.

I would highly recommend a visit. It has stunning views and great for those who enjoy a nice walk. Definitely wear decent footwear though as the paths through the woodland was rather muddy.

Parking

🅿️ Torr Top St car park

Pay and display – Car spaces: 63 (Disabled spaces: 4)

Opening times: 8am to 6pm

Maximum stay: 10 hours

Address: Torr Top, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire SK22 4BS

🅿️Market St car park

Pay and display – Car spaces: 44

Opening times: 8am to 6pm

Maximum stay: 10 hours

Address: Market Street, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire SK22 4AA

🅿️Town hall car park

Pay and display – Car spaces: 13 (Disabled spaces: 1)

Opening times: 8am to 6pm

Maximum stay: 10 hours

Address: Town Hall, New Mills, High Peak, Derbyshire SK22 4AT

Visit by Train

🚂 Train – New Mills is very fortunate to have two train stations with direct connections to Manchester and Sheffield along the stunning Hope Valley line from New Mills Central

And Buxton, Stockport (linking in with the West Coast mainline to London and Scotland) from New Mills Newtown

🚂 New Mills Central is just a few steps from the entrance to the Torrs Riverside Park

🚂New Mills Newton Station is approximately five mins from another entrance to Torrs

Visit by Bus

🚌 Bus – New Mills Bus Station is located at the top of Union Road and has several services:

60 – Hayfield – New Mills – Whaley Bridge – Macclesfield

60a – New Mills – Whaley Bridge – Macclesfield

61 – Glossop – New Mills – Buxton

199 – Buxton – Chapel – Whaley Bridge – (Newtown/New Mills) Stockport – Manchester Airport

358 – Hayfield – New Mills – Marple – Stockport

389 – New Mills Town Service

Visit Dec 2023