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chimneys of Ashton and Oldham. The highest point of 

 Werneth Lowe is 821 feet above the sea. 



Once again to Disley, but this time en route to more 

 distant places, WHALEY-BRIDGE and TAXAL, both first 

 tendered accessible to holiday-folks by the opening of 

 the Buxton railway. Arrived at Whaley-Bridge, moun- 

 tain slopes and all the pleasures these words imply, 

 offer attractions on every hand. Two rambles there are, 

 nevertheless, which claim pre-eminence in beauty and 

 interest the one past the sheet of water called " Todd- 

 brook reservoir," the other vid, the road by which, on 

 Sundays, people wend their quiet way to Taxal church. 



For the first, we go under the railway embankment, 

 and ascend the hill, leaving at the bottom the river 

 Goyt, already made familiar by interviews at Marple, 

 &c., and which is now on its way from near Buxton. 

 Todd-brook reservoir is one of the storehouses of the 

 Peak-forest canal. The main supply of water for that 

 great liquid roadway is derived from the neighbourhood 

 of Chapel-en-le-Frith ; but here, as elsewhere, it is found 

 prudent to maintain a surplus in case of drought. On 

 the right of the reservoir, a little way up, are the Slater's- 

 bank gritstone quarries, very interesting to the young 

 geologist as illustrating the nature of " unconformable 

 strata." Here we may either enter a little wood, and 

 descend from it to the water's edge, or the path by the 

 latter may be taken at once. In any case, we soon reach 



