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Whixall Walks Whixall Walks Whixall Compiled by: Sharon Eversfield, Arnie Jones, Di McNeish, Sara Scott, Rob Sharam, Jen Spenser, Lynne Westworth Walks Thanks to Jo Schup for testing out the walks. Thanks also to Liz Evans for producing the maps and to Dr Joan Daniels for the map for Walk 10. Artwork by MA Creative Limited www.macreative.co.uk A special thank you to Luke Neal for all his support and encouragement. Introduction Page 4 Dog and Bull circular walk 6.5 miles The Meres and Mosses has been declared a On this water-logged peat surface only 1 Nature Improvement Area in order to recognise specialised plants and animals can survive, Page 6 Around Whixall 4 miles its landscape character of international like the carnivorous sundew plant and the rare 2 importance. This area is a mosaic of wetland white-faced darter dragonfly. types, most notably the meres and lowland Page 8 Circling Stanley Green 2.5 miles Fenns, Whixall and Bettisfield Mosses began 3 peat bogs or mosses, that rival the Lake growing 12,000 years ago from Wem Moss and District and Norfolk Broads in their extent and Page 10 Places of Worship 3.5 miles extend to nearly 1,000 acres; together they are 4 ecological diversity. the third largest lowland bog in Britain. At one 5 Page 12 Tilstock to Hollinwood 4.5 miles The Meres and Mosses Landscape Partnership time the whole area, including Whixall, would Scheme and Nature Improvement Area aims to: have been an expanse of wetlands surrounding Page 14 Whixall Parish Walk 3.25 miles the mosses. 6 Create better understanding of the Meres 7 Page 16 Canal and Old Shropshire Way 5 miles and Mosses landscape Meres are deep glacial hollows giving them Reconnect people with the landscape and different characteristics to lakes. Some you 8 Page 18 Fenns Bank Area 3.5 miles to raise awareness of its global ecological can hardly avoid, but most are hidden away significance and its cultural heritage in the hollows of this hummocky post-glacial landscape. Turn off the main roads, down Page 20 Canal and Fenns Moss 3 miles Build capacity in the community so local 9 narrow lanes and take to footpaths across the people can actively shape their landscape fields to discover these hidden gems. 10 Page 22 Walk along the fringe of the Moss 2.6 miles for future generations Together these meres and mosses and Page 24 To Bettisfield and back 4.5 miles Secure landscape conservation, now 11 and in the future, by providing ways for their distinctive wildlife have created an internationally important and richly diverse Page 26 Waterloo, the walk not the Battle 2.5 miles farming, business and the community 12 to work together for the benefit of the landscape which we hope you will explore as you stroll the footpaths of Whixall. 13 Page 28 Walk for all Seasons 3 miles environment. Improve the natural connectivity between This walk booklet has been funded by a Page 30 Whixall map with all walks recognised sites. Meres and Mosses Landscape Partnership Scheme and Nature Improvement Area There are a number of ways that you can community grant, and by the Department for get involved, from accessing a community Please: Transport Local Sustainable Transport Fund or farm grant to volunteering opportunities through Shropshire Council. • Leave gates as you find them both in the field and office. We are also keen • Leave no trace of your visit and take your litter home to hear your views on the Meres and Me page If you are interested in finding out more please • Keep your dog under effective control ensuring it is not a danger of our website. visit our website www.themeresandmosses.co.uk or nuisance to farm animals, horses, wildlife or other people. If Mosses were formed when flooded shallow Email: [email protected] hollows, created by retreating glaciers 12,000 cattle or horses chase you and your dog it is safer for both of you or phone 01743 284 280 to let your dog off the lead to allow it to run away from the animals years ago, became gradually overgrown with Sphagnum moss which absorbs and acidifies – don't risk getting hurt by trying to protect it. Please see the rainwater. Dead plant material is pickled in the Countryside Code for further details. acidic water which then forms peat and creates www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-countryside-code lowland bogs (known locally as mosses). • Please be aware that mobile phone signals are poor in this area. © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Ordnance Survey 100049049. You are not permitted to copy, sub-licence, distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in any form. Supplied by Shropshire Council. The public rights of way information shown on these maps are a working copy and has been taken from Shropshire Council's Definitive Map. It is not the Definitive Map and cannot be regarded as the legal record of public rights of way. It is guidance provided for indicative purposes only. This is particularly important when there are legal consequences arising from information obtained from the Map. The Definitive Map may be viewed at the Shirehall. A digital copy of this publication is available on www.whixallparish.org.uk If you would like to find out more please visit www.themeresandmosses.co.uk 1 Circular route from the Dog & Bull pub Start/End Pub car park Grid reference SJ 52876 34290 Distance Approximately 6.5 miles Time Approximately 2.75 hours Terrain Lanes and field paths, can be muddy in places Cross road, through kissing gate, walk right Take the footpath on the right after a few along the hedgerow to the next stile on your metres. Go through the field gate and cross right. Go straight across field to roadside stile – the field to a stile. In the next field cross to care needed as you cross this busy road. stile opposite and then diagonally to next stile on your left and then diagonally again to Go straight ahead and take first turning on the next stile. Go through the field gate and turn left into Gilberts Lane, Coton and then turn left onto the lane. right opposite Park Villas into Gilberts Lane, Whixall. Follow this lane to the T junction at Ignore the right turn into Cumberland Lane Braynes Hall Farm. and at T junction (Hollinwood Green) go right. Follow the road out of Hollinwood and take Turn right and at next T junction go right and second footpath on the right. Go straight then left past the Social Centre. Follow the across the field past the pylon and when you road round past Church Farm, then St Mary's reach the hedge line turn left following the Church and keep going until you reach Oak Whixall Walks signs to a footbridge. Cross the Cottage on the left. Just before the cottage bridge and then, keeping the hedgerow on cross the stile on your left, through the your left, follow the footpath through two paddock to the next stile. Follow the hedgerow fields to the lane. to next stile, climb over this and immediately on your right cross the footbridge. Turn right onto the lane and at the cross roads turn right. Continue on this road for Walk straight across the field to a little wooded some time. Opposite Home Farm observe area with a small pond. Cross the stile and the cottage dated 1667 and particularly its head towards the houses and tall fir tree chimneys. keeping the pond in the field on your left. Go through the gate and follow the tarmac Shortly after this take the turning on the right lane to the T junction, turn left and continue opposite the driveway to Coton Hall and then along the lane until you pass a left turn. next left. Before the junction with White Lion Farm take the footpath on the left through two fields and out to the very busy main Whitchurch to Wem road. Turn right and taking great care walk along the grass verge to the Dog & Bull pub. However, at the time of writing this walk we START are hoping to reopen a footpath that will lead straight to the Dog & Bull beer garden. This is just after the junction. Go through a gate on your left just past White Lion Farm and walk across the field to the pub. Please be guided by the Whixall Walks signs. © Crown copyright and database rights 2015 Ordnance Survey 100049049. You are not permitted to copy, sub-licence, distribute or sell any of this data to third parties in any form. 4 5 Around Whixall 2 The Church of England Primary School was established in 1967 and occupies the buildings of what was originally Whixall Start/End Car park at Whixall Social Centre County School. The Social Centre where you Grid reference SJ 51628 34483 start and finish the walk was once a second Distance Approximately 4 miles Whixall school. Time Approximately 2 hours After passing the war memorial take the lane Terrain Field paths, canal towpath and quiet lanes to your right and follow it for approximately ¼ mile to a T junction. Turn right out of the Social Centre car park on to your left and after about 400 metres there Cross the road and go over a stile which you to Church Lane. After a few metres (and before is an oak tree. Cross the bridge and stile Shropshire Union in 1846. It is worth pausing will find about 15 metres to the right of a gate.
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