Circular walk via Lightwood Green

A number of people have asked for more details about the circular walk from Audlem that takes in Lightwood Green and a new bridge at Brooks Mill. Our thanks to Peter Kay for describing this new circular walk.

A new bridge gives us a new circular walk around the village. The erection of a splendid new bridge at Brooks Mill, down the lane from the chapel at Lightwood Green, makes possible a circular walk of just over 5 miles.

No one has been able to cross Barnett Brook for many years and we are indebted to the former Cheshire County Council for the work. The scenery is varied and you can finish at a pub.

Leave Audlem on the Whitchurch Road. At the bottom of the hill before the Weaver Bridge, turn left along Mill Lane towards Swanbach. As the road turns left, go straight on using the footpath which goes south to Heywood Lane.

Just before reaching the lane, turn back north again on another footpath which soon turns westward towards Lightwood Green, crossing the Ducklow and passing near to Newtown Farm. The path joins a small road in Lightwood Green where you turn right before meeting the main road. Cross the A525 and walk past the Methodist Chapel down the lane to Brooks Mill.

Cross the bridges and head right towards Lower House Farm on Back Coole Lane. Walk right towards Audlem and then shortly go left on a footpath to Manor Farm on Coole Lane. Turn left towards Nantwich and leave Coole Lane on the right after passing Park House Farm.

Then head downhill towards the canal. Emerge on the bridge at lock 15, near the Old Stables and walk southwards up the towpath back into the village.

A few words of advice: you will need your map as not all the paths are clearly signed and the field after the old railway line can be boggy. As of February 2010 there are no problems with the once difficult gate over the river.

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