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Land Lane. An old footpath between Macclesfield Road and Prestbury New Road (A538). Still in regular use today (2016) particularly by locals in the Thorngrove Area of Wilmslow.
In the mid 1960's the southern portion of it (close to where Prestbury Road meets the A34 By-Pass) was upgraded from footpath to a road (a cul-de-sac at the end of Thorngrove Road), still retaining it's original name, Land Lane. This end of Land Lane served as the main entrance to what was then named The Hough Secondary Modern School for Boys (opened 1965) later to become Thorngrove High School which was eventually closed around 1991-92 and demolished 1995-6 to make way for the new housing estate known as Thorngrove Park (built 1996). About half-way along Land Lane (footpath) there is another footpath which runs westwards towards Wilmslow town centre. It spans the A34 by-pass via a modern purpose built footbridge and then utilises an original railway footbridge which spans the Manchester to London Mainline before following a line between the northern perimeter fence of Wilmslow High School and the Wilmslow Sports Centre Cricket Ground and adjacent public car-park. '