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USING THIS GUIDE The Mid-Cheshire Footpath Society This guide describes the walk in both directions. For Frodsham to Higher Burwardsley please turn to page 2. Waymarked Walks in Central Cheshire For Higher Burwardsley to Frodsham please turn to page 17. The use of Ordnance Survey 1:25000 maps to supplement the maps included in this guide is recommended. These provide more accurate and latest detail. The following links provide on-line access to these maps which can be printed to take with you as paper or electronic copies. Click on the link and it should open the appropriate OS 25k “Streetmap”. You may need to scroll to the location arrow near the centre of the map which may be off your screen. Frodsham Newton Brine's Brow Kelsall THE EDDISBURY WAY Duddon Huxley From Frodsham to Higher Burwardsley (Revised route) Higher Burwardsley The following links are to OpenStreetMap street level maps. An easy 27km (17 mile) walk in the Cheshire You can zoom in and out and drag the map to any location. countryside. OSM Frodsham OSM Kelsall OSM Burwardsley Eddisbury Way Page 2 of 32 ABOUT THE EDDISBURY WAY (Walking South) Distance: 27.5 km or 17 miles Waymark: Black lettering on yellow arrow, inscribed "Eddisbury way" Walking south from Frodsham to Maps: OS Explorer Maps 257 and 267 Higher Burwardsley Start: In the centre of Frodsham, at the Sandstone Trail obelisk outside the Bear's Paw at the junction of the A56 (Main Street / High Street) with the B5152 (Church Street) (grid ref SJ 517 779 & postcode WA6 7AF). (Please note that the route from the original start point at Frodsham Bridge may still appear on maps.) Route: Frodsham-Newton-Brine's Brow-Kelsall-Duddon-Huxley- Higher Burwardsley Parking: Street parking and various other car parks in Frodsham including the nearby railway station. Public Transport: There are good rail services to Frodsham from Chester, Ellesmere Port and Warrington and bus services from Chester, Warrington, Runcorn and Northwich. There is no suitable direct bus service to Burwardsley and no rail service. The nearest regular bus service is from Chester to Tattenhall, which is about 4.5 km from Higher Burwardsley. Refreshments: There are many public houses selling food in the villages along the route. If you encounter any problems en route please report them to : Cheshire West and Chester Council (Website, letter or telephone) Eddisbury Way Page 3 of 32 Eddisbury Way Page 4 of 32 Frodsham to Newton 4.3 km or 2.7 miles From the A56/B5152 junction at the Bear's Paw Inn A, go north east up the A56 (towards Warrington) using the pedestrian walkway on the right-hand side of the road. After about 230 yards, opposite Alexandra Mews where steps descend to the road, turn right up a ginnel between houses. Follow this path, cross the railway by a footbridge and in a few yards, at a footpath junction B, bear left to reach a road (Blue Hatch). Follow this road to Fluin Lane (B5439) C; turn left and then shortly right into Langdale Way. Follow this up to its end, where it meets Townfield Lane D, which is a track (a restricted byway). Turn right on to the track, passing a play area and then houses on your right, and take the first path on the left (another restricted byway) opposite No 93 E. Follow this down to where a path joins from the left down some steps (the original route). Continue to the bridge, over the stream F and on up the path slightly right, to come to Bradley by way of a lane with hedges on both sides. At the end of this lane turn right and continue for 90m to the crossroads at Bradley. Keep straight on along Watery Lane (a little left and right). The road turns gently left and there are two footpaths near a pond on the right in 140m and a third also on your right 25m further on G. Take the third one, which is opposite a kissing gate, diagonally left across the field to a stile. A short path across the end of a garden leads to a second stile. After this bear right up the field to a narrow stile in the middle of the far hedge, and then on to a stile leading to a lane. Cross the lane to the gap opposite and climb the field heading for the farm at the top left. There is a stile leading to the main road to Frodsham B5152, where you turn left to the next road junction a few metres further on H. Turn right up this road past Such Farm. In 90m, where the road turns right, the Eddisbury Way turns left along a private road with some houses on the left. At the last house on the right keep straight on to a track which keeps the hedge close on the right hand side. Keep the hedge on the right for 150m then turn right through it, not ahead through the gate, to continue in the same direction as before with the hedge on the left. Keep on through four fields to a track that leads down to the road (Hillfoot Lane) to Newton J. Turn right onto this road for a few metres. Eddisbury Way Page 5 of 32 Eddisbury Way Page 6 of 32 Newton to Brine's Brow 5.8 km or 3.6 miles Climb the stile that is just a few metres along on the left A. Go across the slope to stile opposite where the field corner projects into the field you are crossing. Over the stile and keep on with the hedge on the left for 275m. Here there is a stile in the facing hedge and a stile in the left hand hedge. Go over the left stile and down the field to the main road, the B5152 Kingsley Road B, at Blakelees. Turn right along the road for 230m to where five roads meet. Take the right hand one of the facing roads, Waterloo Lane. Keep on this road for 675m ignoring a road (Offal Pit Lane) coming in from the right. With a view of Eddisbury Hill as the road levels out, go on to a crossroads by Finney Farm C. Turn right on the unmade road for about 200m to a stile in the left hand hedge. Go straight down the field to a stile at the bottom and climb up at about 30° right to a stile under the pylons. Go diagonally across the field corner to a stile 40m away and continue in the same line across the next field, then over a stile and across another field to a sunken lane D. A stile in the opposite hedge leads to a path straight across the field to yet another stile. From here keep the hedge and a wooded area on the left as you pass through the grounds of the former Crossley Hospital (now Kingsley Park housing). Enter the woods ahead at a stile near a gate and continue to a footpath signpost at the edge of the woods, by a Mid-Cheshire Footpath Society notice board E. Here the Eddisbury Way crosses the Delamere Way. Go over a stile and bear right across the field and the next two fields to come to New Pale Road F near New Pale Lodge. About 800m down the road are the houses of Manley Common G. At the bottom of the hill where the road turns right there are two footpaths on the left, one on either side of the hedge. The path on the left of the hedge is the Sandstone Trail. The Eddisbury Way is the one on the right. Keep the hedge on your left to the first field corner and turn right to the end of the field. Go over a stile by a gate and turn right along the hedge to a stile in the corner which leads to a narrow path going left along the top of a wood. In 140m it emerges into fields again. Keep to the right hand field edge for 140m and as it turns left (the second time) watch for a thin track to the right through the bracken leading down to a bridge over the stream and a stile. Go over this and climb the field to a stile in the hedge at the top of the hill. After this continue on the same bearing to a post in the opposite hedge. Turn right along the field edge, then left under the railway H. After the bridge the path joins the road; The crossroads at Brine's Brow are 200m ahead J. Eddisbury Way Page 7 of 32 Eddisbury Way Page 8 of 32 Brine's Brow to Kelsall 3km or 2 miles The official route continues for 350m along the road ahead A, but you may prefer to avoid part of it by turning left and following the Baker Way route from the car park at Brine's Brow a. From the back of the car park climb up across a grassy area, keeping near the left hand fence. Where the fence turns left, keep ahead on a path roughly parallel to the road to reach a track at the top. Turn right then shortly left on the road to rejoin the official route. Leave the road where it bends left B and go just to the left of a farm driveway to a stile in the corner. Over the stile bear slightly left up the field with the fence on the right to a stile near the end of the farmyard.