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Capenhurst Station and finish at Hooton Station shortens the route by 4 miles. miles. 4 by route the shortens Station Hooton at finish and Station Capenhurst

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Chester via the Millennium Greenway - or you can catch catch can you or - Greenway Millennium the via Chester

Chester residents to make increased use of cycling of use increased make to residents Chester

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CHESTER Join the Chester Cycling CYCLING CAMPAIGN Campaign Today Family Cycle Route No. 8 If you would like to see a more cycle friendly city please join us - the more people we can show that support us, the The Burton Warbler stronger voice we have for pressing for improvements.

You can support the Campaign by joining via our website at www.chestercyclecity.org

The Chester Cycling Campaign meets monthly at 7.30 pm on the first Wednesday of each month in the Old Custom House Pub, Watergate Street, Chester. Newcomers are always given a warm welcome. For more information visit www.chestercyclecity.org

Thank You to Our Sponsors We would like to say a big thank you to Cheshire West and Two thirds of route is traffic Suitable for older free - otherwise quiet roads children with care Chester Council for funding these leaflets. 21 miles long Hooton, Deeside & (34km) Neston

Cycle Hire available at Hooton Station - see MerseyRail GoBike for details. Alternatively bring your bike(s) free on the train from Chester or Bache - MerseyRail is probably the most cycle friendly train company in the UK

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Local Shop 6 5 Pub Cafe Useful Tip: Garden In addition to the above map, you may also want to use RSPB an Ordnance Survey Map 117 to reach places of interest

Begin the ride from Hooton Station (you can take your the road. ( Tenth Ave ) Exit right onto a shared path by the A548, go under Start bike(s) on the train for free from Chester/Bache) - or you the A548 with the railway on your left. Here can join the route from the traffic free NCR5 from Chester. 7. Exit path left onto a private road and immediately right onto the MOD 1. Exit station left and left over the railway bridge and immediate left onto the access road under bridge ‘built in1951’. (Take Care Here) Exit MOD access Wirral Way. (signed as Wirral Circular Route) road to your right up an embankment with the railway on your right. Continue on Route 568 until Station Road Burton. Please close any gates you 2. At 1.06 miles exit Wirral Way by the first road bridge, turning right and use here. right again into Heath Lane onto NCN Route 56. Take care on blind bend turning right onto the farm track through Oak Farm to Capenhurst following 8. Turn left here along Station Road then into Denhall lane following Route route 56, take care crossing the A550. 568 signs, passing ‘Nets cafe’ and the Harp pub, then turn right up Marshlands Road, following the Route 568 signs through West Vale Estate to 3. At Capenhurst Station turn right into Dunkirk Lane still on NCN56. Flint Drive. Enter into a park and follow the path.

4. Turn right onto the A5117 shared path, and follow local route 563 for 4 9. On leaving the Park, IGNORE 568 sign pointing to the right and exit left miles to North Wales. Cross over the A 540 and A 550 using the Toucan onto Church Lane under the bridge (very narrow road). Turn left by the white Crossing. Exit shared path under the A548 along the B5441 Drome Road cottage. THE NOOK onto Wirral Way. Turn left onto the Wirral Way via using shared paths until you reach the Blue Bridge on NCN route 5. Hadlow Road Old Station following signs Wirral Circular Route, back to Hooton Station. 5. Turn right onto route NCN 5 towards Hawarden Bridge for approximately a mile. Please note 6. Leave NCN 5 at third right signed local Route 568 to Neston 4 miles, Use Much of this route is on shared use traffic free paths . Share shared paths, a bus lane and roads on Deeside Industrial Zones 3&4, with care. Please be courteous to other users including continue past the Toyota Factory following Route 568 signs until the end of other cyclists, walkers and horse riders.