Walk 7: Grindley Brook and Back in Two Ways Higher Wych Stile to Your Right
Walk 7: Grindley Brook Longer Route Description gateway, to a waymark post directing you across a culvert and through a and back in two ways Start at Grindley Brook 1. Go steel field gate. With the hedge to through the car park on to the Malpas Long route: 6.8 miles / 10.9km • Duration: about 4 hours your right, cross more pasture to a road (B5395 – narrow and quite busy). Short route: 3.5 miles / 5.6km • Duration: about 2 hours stile and then a steel kissing gate. Just past a house is a stile to the left. Starting point: The Horse & Jockey, Grindley Brook Turn right, and then left along a grass This path is well way marked – (Check with the pub, 01948 662723, if you wish to park there. bank. Below is Wolvesacre Mill, which continue across several fields, with Or use the No.41 bus service from Whitchurch) is now a cottage. the brook to your left, to reach a Mostly flat (only a few short, steep banks), with stiles, and gates. footbridge across the Red Brook. On Another kissing gate leads on to a There are places where it can be muddy. the other side you are in Wales. Cross track, turn left, and after passing a In summer there may be crops to walk through. a wet meadow, through an open cottage, Llethr Mill 2, go over the Two wells and a church Where Canal crosses Brook St. Mary’s Church, Whitewell (also known as Iscoyd), The Llangollen Canal ascends from is a whitewashed brick church which was a former Hurlestone Junction in Cheshire to ‘chapel of ease’ (an alternative and more convenient Llangollen and is a branch of the Shropshire venue) for parishioners of Malpas in Cheshire.
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