Short ARS on Saturday

A circuit round Marbury

The short-ARS walk on Saturday June 27th will be led by Steve Elliott.

We meet at the main car park in Audlem to leave at 9.30am.

There should be space to park outside the village hall (School Lane) in Marbury.

The route takes us to the Llangollen Canal, which we walk along for a mile-and-a-half or so to Willeymoor Lock and join the Bishop Bennett Way. Then the path rises slowly and steadily for a mile (about 100 metres height gain in all) to bring us to Wirswall – this is the highest point in this part of Cheshire and from which there are great views across to the Sandstone Ridge Hills.

Follow Bishop Bennet Way to road, where we take the South Cheshire Way and turn left to a corner at top of hill. There is a convenient seat here just before we pass Wickstead Hall and start the gentle descent across fields, around the Big Mere and back into Marbury.

There are ten stiles on the route, but all but one of them has an openable gate alongside!

The total distance of the walk is five to six miles.

In the past, some patches of the section round the Big Mere were a bit muddy – if the weather becomes wetter in the next few days we will do a recce.

As always, boots are advisable for the walk.

On the short-ARS scale of one to three, this classes as a two carpet-slipper category walk.

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