{"id":604,"date":"2012-06-11T00:58:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T23:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2012-06-11T00:58:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T23:58:19","slug":"the-kidsgrove-to-stoke-ridgeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2012\/06\/11\/the-kidsgrove-to-stoke-ridgeway\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kidsgrove to Stoke Ridgeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new free ebook, of nearly 100 pages: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/kidsgrove-to-stoke.pdf\">The Kidsgrove to Stoke Ridgeway: an elevated green route, to walk from Kidsgrove Station to Stoke Station<\/a><\/em> (5Mb PDF).  It photographs and describes a new ten-mile ridge walk, going all the way down the western edge of the Stoke-on-Trent valley.  I&#8217;d estimate that about eight miles of the walk are either wooded, pasture, or parkland.  Be warned, it has a delicious mix of strenous slopes &mdash; and is not for the faint-of-heart!  Some parts of the route, such as the Bradwell Wood bit, are <em>very<\/em> muddy in winter and spring. It&#8217;s an unofficial continuation of The Gritstone Trail, a similarly tough &#8220;up and down&#8221; long-distance path which currently terminates at Kidsgrove.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/ridgeq.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ridgeq\" width=\"640\" height=\"458\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-611\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Nine years old now, at spring 2021. So walkers should expect that some aspects of the walk may have changed. Especially on the approach from the north to Wolstanton churchyard. I welcome update reports &#8211; please post in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new free ebook, of nearly 100 pages: The Kidsgrove to Stoke Ridgeway: an elevated green route, to walk from Kidsgrove Station to Stoke Station (5Mb PDF). It photographs and describes a new ten-mile ridge walk, going all the way down the western edge of the Stoke-on-Trent valley. I&#8217;d estimate that about eight miles of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}