CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL WALKS
(Including section of Peak District in North-East Cheshire)

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GRADING - EASY

Walk no.	Name	Start or Nearest Place	Length (miles)	Altitude or Total Ascent (ft.)	Time Allow (Hrs)	Freewalks Menu Bestwalks Homepage Click image for larger version The total number of walks currently on this page is: 174 Adjoining Areas: Manchester-Merseyside Clwyd Derbyshire Staffordshire Shropshire ►Books on Walking Cheshire (compare prices) ►Buy maps for this area Please use this email link to report any broken links or manifest errors.
E1-2	Marbury Bickerton Hill and Maiden Castle	Whitchurch (Shrops)	2.5 2.5	-	2 1
E3-5	Parkgate Ness Circular Storeton and Thornton Hough	Neston, Wirral	3 3 6.5	-	2 2
E6-14	Bluebell Cottage Mount Pleasant Water Heritage Trail Shipbrook Hill Farm Hartford pdf Blakemere Moss The Coachman to Thorn Wood pdf Woods and Heaths of Little Budworth Northwich Canals	Northwich	2.5 3 1 1.2 2.5 3 5.5 3.25 5.5	-	1 2 1.25 1.25 1.75
E15	Haslington	Crewe	4	-	3
E16-33	Nantwich and Acton Wybunbury Tarporley pdf Walks around Audlem (8) Tattenhall Millennium Mile pdf Country Walking at Nantwich Brindley Farm Wrenbury Wood Higher Burwardsley and Peckforton Beeston Castle and Shropshire Canal Nantwich Riverside Loop pdf	Nantwich	5 1/5 4 up to 5 1 5.59 1.1 1.1 5 6.5 3	-	3 0.5/3 2.5 0.5-3 3 1.75 4 2
E34	The Wheelock Rail Trail	Sandbach	2.75	-	1.5
E35	The Salt Line	Alsager	3.5	-	2
E36-41	Little Moreton Hall Astbury Mere Country Park Quinta Arboretum Goostrey pdf Bank Farm Bridge House Farm	Congleton	3 1.5 1.8 4.25 1.1 1.4	-	2 1 2
E42-46	Shutlingsloe from Trentabank Ridgegate Reservoir and Higher Sutton White Nancy & Saddle of Kerridge Macclesfield to Bollington Messuage Farm	Macclesfield	3 3.9 4.5 1.9	880 577	2 3
E47-53	Bollington (4) pdfs Some may be moderate Bollington 1 Bollington 2 Macclesfield Riverside	Macclesfield	1.5-5 1.5 3.5 4	-	0.75-2.5 0.75 1.5 3
E54-57	The Disley Lanes from Lyme Park Black Rocks & Bollinhurst Reservoir Lyme Park & Dissop Head Following in the Stately Steps of Mr Darcy	Disley	4 5 6 5.5	500 400 900 950	3.5
E58-59	The Sandstone Trail at Frodsham Manley Old Hall, Helsby	Runcorn	3 1.2	-	1.25
E60	Mow Cop Heritage Trail: Map pdf Description pdf	Kidsgrove	2.5	-	-
E61-63	Chester's Walls pdf The Grange Chester's Walls and Water	Chester	2 2.2 2.7	164	1
E64	Hilbre Island	From West Kirby	4	-
E65-66	Around Irby West Kirby	West Kirby	5 4.5	-	-
E67-74	Around Nelson Pit (8) pdfs Some may be moderate	Poynton	2-6	-	1.25-3
E75-77	Poynton 1 Poynton 2 Poynton 3	Poynton	2.5-4 3-4.5 5	-	-
E78-83	Around Old Birkenhead Birkenhead Park Heswall Dales Seacombe to New Brighton Port Sunlight The Wirral's Model Village	Birkenhead	1.5 3 3.5 3.5 Lin 1 1.9	-	1
E84-87	4 Walks on the Wirral pdf Mockbeggar Trail, Red Rocks Trail, Thurlaston Common, Heswall Dales	Various	2.5-3.5	-	1.5-2
E88-96	Walks for All Cheshire East (9) pdf	Various	1-4		1-3
E97-101	Rail Walks (5) pdf	Knutsford	3.75-7.75		2-4
E102-108	Alderley Edge Walks (3) Styal - The Carrs Handforth - Dean Row - Wilmslow Row of Trees/Morley Green/The Carrs Alderley Edge pdf	Alderley Edge/Wilmslow	2.3-3.5 3 Lin 3.75 Lin 5 Lin 4.5	-	2.5 3.25

GRADING - MODERATE

No.	Name	Start or Nearest Place	Length (miles)	Altitude or Total Ascent (ft.)	Time Allow (Hrs)
M1-3	Raw Head Utkinton Views of Cheshire's Castle Country	Nantwich	5.5 5 5.5	919	3/4 3 2
M4	Dane Valley	Congleton	4.5	-	3
M5-18	Gawsworth Hall Bollington Tegg's Nose from Trentabank Macclesfield to Congleton Macclesfield Forest and Teggs Nose Wildboarclough & Shutlingsloe 1 Wildboarclough & Shutlingsloe 2 Tegg’s Nose and Walker Barn Shining Tor & Windgather Rocks Kettleshulme & Sponds Hill Shining Tor & Axe Edge Moor Shining Tor and Cat's Tor Shutlingsloe and Macclesfield Forest Kettleshulme & Taxal Edge	Macclesfield	3.5 5 7 10 Lin 4.3 7 7.6 3.9 7.5 8 9 7 9 10	1240 974 1700 1525 843 1355 1600 1800 1800 1660 2100	2.5 2.5 3.5 2 3.5 2 3.5
M19-22	Rainow and Kerridge Rainow, Lamaload and Walker Barn Rainow and Bollington A Walk to White Nancy	Macclesfield	5.6 5.6 4.9 3.5	994 885 640 1180	2.5 2.5 2.5 2
M23-26	Arley Hall Runcorn Hill Cheshire Lanes/Woodhouse Hill Fort Frodsham and Helsby Hills	Runcorn	5.5 1 7 6.5	700	4
M27	Bidston Hill	Birkenhead	2.5	-	-
M28-30	Hoylake to West Kirby Thurstaston and Caldy Wirral North Coast	West Kirby	5.5 6 8	-	-
M31	Meadow Bank Farm, Malpass	Whitchurch (Shrops)	up to 5.5	-	-
M32-33	Lyme Park from Poynton Middlewood Way pdf	Poynton	10 up to 10	1325
M34	Mow Cop	Kidsgrove	5.4	525	5
M35-38	Alderley Edge to Bradford Lane Over Alderley and Alderley Edge Chelford/Nether Alderley/Alderley Edge Wizardly Wanderings at Alderley Edge	Alderley Edge/Wilmslow	4.1 4.5 4.75 Lin 3	535 532 445	2 2 3 1
M39	Willaston to Parkgate	Neston, Wirral	8.5	-	-
M40-42	Whitegate Way pdf Weaver Valley pdf The Victorian Boat Lift	Northwich	7.5 7.5 12.4	656	5

GRADING - STRENUOUS/CHALLENGING (Fit, experienced walkers only)

No.	Name	Start or Nearest Place	Length (miles)	Altitude or Total Ascent (ft.)	Time Allow (Hrs)
S1-2	Walking the Past Walking the Trackways	Nantwich	10.5 Lin 10.5 Lin		7 7
S3	Walking the Wildside	Crewe	8.5 Lin		6
S4	Shotton to Hoylake	Chester	20 Lin	-	8
S5-11	Macclesfield to Stockport A Walk to the Forest Shutlingsloe 1 Shutlingsloe 2 A circular walk from the Cat and Fiddle Inn Hunt for Wild Boar in Macclesfield Forest Shutlingsloe: the Mini-mountain	Macclesfield	19.2 Lin 7 6.5 8.14 17.5 7 5	1850 1800 2820 1129	7 4 4 7 3.5 2
S12-13	Kidsgrove to Macclesfield Down and Up Again to Mow Cop	Kidsgrove	18.7 Lin 5.2	720	6.5 2
S14	Alderley Park - Hocker Lane - Alderley Edge	Alderley Edge/Wilmslow	4.75 Lin		3
S15	Acton Bridge, Woodhouse Hill & the River Weaver	Northwich	13
S16	Viewing The Cloud from Both Sides	Congleton	7	804	2.5

LONG DISTANCE ROUTES

No.	Name	Start or Nearest Place	Length (miles)	Altitude or Total Ascent (ft.)	Time Allow (Hrs)	Books on the Sandstone Trail
L1	Delamere Loop	Northwich	22
L2-5	Sandstone Trail pdf in 7 sections Sandstone Trail South Sandstone Trail Central Sandstone Trail North	Runcorn Whitchurch (Shrops) Northwich Runcorn	34 11.75 11.25 11.25		6 6 6
L6-8	Gritstone Trail in 3 sections Gritstone Trail South Gritstone Trail North	Disley Congleton Disley	35 19.3 10.3		6 7

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL WALKS (Including section of Peak District in North-East Cheshire)

GRADING - EASY

GRADING - MODERATE

GRADING - STRENUOUS/CHALLENGING (Fit, experienced walkers only)

LONG DISTANCE ROUTES

CHESHIRE AND WIRRAL WALKS
(Including section of Peak District in North-East Cheshire)