The lovely woodland walk with caves and wizard legend that kids adore near Manchester

When you're planning a day out for a walk with younger family members, it always helps if there's some dramatic points of interest to capture their imagination along the way. And the National Trust park at Alderley Edge in Cheshire comes with plenty of those.

It's a place of much local myth and legend, and boasts lots of caves that kids will love to explore. And the walk also provides some stunning moments with expansive views of Manchester and the Peak District at the edge of the spectacular Sandstone ridges here.

At this time of year, the woodland at Alderley Edge also boasts impressive Autumn colours with the mixture of trees like sweet chestnuts and beech and their changing leaves to walk through.

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For those who are not keen on a lot of uphill walking, you can avoid any taxing gradients if you are using the main National Trust car park here, as it sits pretty much at the summit.

You will need to pay for the car park (£5 for three hours), but access to the woodlands itself is free. You can then walk through the woods at your own pace to get to the various points of interest.

For visitors young and old the caves here are a source of great fascination. The terrain has been mined for thousands of years for mineral deposits, and in more recent years quarried for sandstone and boasting one of the oldest metal-mining sites in the country.

It means the area boasts both natural caves and those left from mine workings, that you can find in the rocks along the walks. That includes a particularly inviting circular cave that you can walk into and explore for several metres before reaching a dead end (pictured at the top of the article).

As you head towards one of the