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64 Cheshire Castles by Chris Pearce Distance: 4½ miles Difficulty: Easy When choosing Jack’s Tracks to feature in Local Life, we usually opt to choose the Lancashire area, often to the Trough of Bowland or the West Pennine Moors. However, Cheshire has its fair share of notable walks too, and it’s there that we turn to this month for the Cheshire Castles walk. At just over 4½ miles, this walk takes in two very different castles. Peckforton Castle was built in the 1840’s by the Tollemache family within their 36,000 acres of Cheshire countryside. It’s now best known as a hotel/wedding venue and features regularly on TV shows such as Cheshire Housewives. But we start the walk from the car park at nearby Beeston Castle (CW6 9TX). Beeston Castle was built by Ranulf, the 6th Earl of Chester in the 1220’s, and the castle ruins and the woodland park are now looked after by English Heritage. Members of English Heritage can use the car park free, otherwise the cost is £3. Leave the main car park opposite the castle entrance, turn right, and head up the footpath between the castle wall and the overflow car park. Stay left at first as you enter the pine woods, and the path eventually drops to Tattenhall Lane, from where you can see Peckforton Castle in the distance. Turn left on the road, and after a few yards you’ll pass Tabernacle Cottage; at this point turn right on a footpath. Follow the footpath into the distance until you come to a stream. After you cross the wooden bridge, the path splits. Follow the path denoted by the ‘S’ marker, which heads away from the stream through a field towards Peckforton Castle. After 200 yards, the path splits again; go right through the steel gate and head towards the black and white timber framed houses in the distance. When you exit the field by the houses mentioned, turn right down the single-track lane (Horsley Lane) for 240 yards.
65 Elevation 150m 100m 50m 0.0km 2.0km 4.0km 6.0km 7.5km Lowest 64m Highest 173m Total ascent 139m For those with the OS Maps app on your desktop, mobile or tablet, this walk is named: JT-Cheshire-Castles https://osmaps.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/route/11130280/JT-Cheshire-Castles Castleside Farm Beeston Castle Tattenhall Lane Ettley Hill Castlegate Farm P Beeston Crimes Brook Gregory’s Wood Peckforton Road Sandstone Trail Moathouse Farm Peckforton Castle (Hotel) The Table Rock Horsley Lane Willis’s Wood River Gowy Peckforton Mere Pennsylvania Wood Stanner Nab Stone House Lane Eddisbury Way Barracks Lane Hill Lane Peckforton Higher Burwardsley Waste Hill Peckforton Hall Lane
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