New book "Cyling Manchester to the Malverns"

I have recently received notice of a great new cycling book which passes through part of our local cycling network, albeit not around the Swadlincote sections. 

Robin Summerhill is a self-publishing author, producing books on long distance cycling and walking opportunities around the country, mainly concentrating on former railway routes which are now footpaths/ cycle tracks, and canal towpaths. The books also have a strong flavour of local transport history about them. They are very much aimed at the “leisure” end of the market, breaking the journeys down into easy manageable sections of about 5 miles each way.
 
His latest book “Cycling Manchester to The Malverns” looks at the cycling and walking opportunities between Manchester Victoria station and the southern end of the Worcester & Birmingham canal at its junction with the river Severn at Worcester.
 
The route described leaves Manchester along the Ashton Canal towpath to Dukinfield Junction and then takes the Peak Forest Canal to Marple. From there, two routes are described to Birmingham; the “Potteries” route goes via Macclesfield, Congleton, Stoke on Trent and Stafford, taking in a number of former railway lines en route which are now footpaths and cycle tracks (the Middlewood Way, Biddulph Valley Way and the Isabel Trail at Stafford) together with parts of the Macclesfield, Caldon, Trent & Mersey, Staffordshire & Worcester canals and the Birmingham Canal Main Line.
 
The alternative route described goes via Buxton, Cromford and Derby, utilising parts of the Peak Forest, Cromford, Trent & Mersey and Birmingham & Fazeley canals, and also the former railway routes of the Cromford & High Peak Railway (High Peak Trail) and the Mickleover to Egginton Junction section south of Derby. It rejoins the “Potteries” route at Gas Street Basin in Birmingham.
 
The final section takes the Worcester & Birmingham canal over all of its length.
 
 Should you be interested, further details are available on his website www.robinsummerhill.co.uk and the page dealing specifically with this book is here:  http://www.robinsummerhill.co.uk/55253.html