Monument Marathon

02/09/2025

📣 CONGRATULATIONS! 🥳

20/07/2025

📣 40 DAYS TO GO! 🙌

📣 40 DAYS UNTIL THE Monument Marathon 2025! 🥾 🏃‍♀️
🗓️ 30th August

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Returning for its fourth year… Hike or Run the epic Monument Marathon!

This challenging 27 mile loop connects six historic Towers.

Mostly on trail paths, you'll pass through country parks, along waterways, and even on to Holcombe Moor as you check off the the following six iconic towers along the route:

📍 Grants Tower
📍 Tentering Tower
📍 Peel Tower
📍 Turton Tower
📍 Bradshaw Hall remains
📍 Radcliffe Tower

This event is simply about completing the distance with the camaraderie of other like-minded people around you – there should be no desire to ‘beat’ anyone or break any records and we’ll have friendly guides who will be running / hiking the whole route with you to offer a supportive pep talk when required. However, we also won’t be offended if you do want to push on ahead without us.

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𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩?

The Sunnywood Project is an award winning nonprofit organisation offering a wide range of youth programmes and community activities which all aim to utilise the outdoors to enrich people’s lives.

Proceeds from many of our events help us continue this important work.

By attending our events, you will contribute to covering the costs of our ‘Kindling Kids’ sessions; our Duke of Edinburgh’s Award programmes; our SPACE programme for children with SEMH needs; and much more!

Plus, as a dedicated and qualified team, we absolutely love what we do - we care about your experience; your personal journey and your reasons for joining us on Sunnywood adventures.

So, a massive thank you for being part of The Sunnywood Project Community ❤

𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚;
𝘽𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮;
𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛!

14/05/2025

📣 Just over 100 days until the big day! How’s the training going? 🏃‍♀️ 🥾

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28/04/2025

“Count the towers, not the miles!”

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04/04/2025

📍 Tentering Tower, Stubbins

02/04/2025

📣 Monument Marathon 2025
🗓️ 30th August

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24/03/2025

The final and oldest tower on the Monument Marathon route, is Radcliffe Tower.

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19/03/2025

The fifth tower along the Monument Marathon route, is the remains of Bradshaw Hall and the location of the second Aid Station.

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18/03/2025

The fourth tower along the Monument Marathon route is a 15th Cebtury pele tower… that is also home to a pair of skulls which are said to be the cause of a various paranormal phenomena within the area.

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17/03/2025

Peel Tower is the third out of six towers along the Monument Marathon route.

Built in 1852 to commemorate the life of Sir Robert Peel: It is 128 feet high with 148 steps with views, on a clear day, as far as Manchester, Cheshire and North Wales.
Twice Prime Minister, Peel's major accomplishments were establishing the police force and abolishing the corn laws.

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15/03/2025

Built in 1866 as part of Stubbins Vale Mill for drying newly made cloth.
Tentering is the process of stretching the newly made cloth and letting it dry out - this prevents the cloth from shrinking as it dries.
Heard of the phrase "on tenterhooks" that describes someone feeling pressure or unease? That phrase comes from this process.

This is the second of six towers that you’ll pass along the Monument Marathon route.

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