Cheshire & the Gritstone Edge Short Walks

by: Neil Coates
This attractive full colour guide is the ideal companion for short walks, providing 20 splendid routes suitable for all the family. Features include clear and easy-to-follow instructions plus detailed Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer mapping with the route clearly highlighted, and specially commissioned photographs.

There are twenty routes to choose from, colour coded by length and difficulty; green for easy; blue for modest length with some climbing and red for more challenging walks. An introductory chapter describes the main landscape features of the area. Essential practical information at the beginning of each walk includes start location, distance, time, parking and route features. There are notes about places of interest and colour photographs.

The walk locations are:
Redesmere and Capesthorne - 2.5 miles
Lymm - 2.5 miles
Higher Poynton - 2.5 miles
Alderley Edge - 2.5 miles
Styal and Quarry Bank Mill - 2.5 miles
Forest Chapel - 2.5 miles
Wybunbury Moss - 2.5 miles
Beeston Castle and the Peckforton Hills - 3 miles
Marbury - 3.5 miles
Chester and the River Dee - 4.5 miles
Bunbury and the Shroppie - 4 miles
Foxwist Green - 4.5 miles
Bel o'th' Hill - 3.5 miles
Roman Bridge and the Goyt Valley - 4.5 miles
Kerridge Ridge and the Dean Valley - 4.5 miles
Church Lawton - 4.5 miles
Lower Peover - 5 miles
Ogden Clough and Swineshaw - 5.5 miles
Danebridge and Wincle Minn - 5.5 miles
Three Shires Head - 5.5 miles

ISBN 9780711724211 Pages 80 (2003) 115mm x 180mm