Moston and Tetton Bridge, Near Sandbach

Introduction

With an Annual Tennis Club Tournament match to play at 6.30 this evening, an easy, short walk was the order of the day today.

It was a dry day, cooler than recent, but plenty of pleasant sunshine.

It’s a 45 minute drive to Sandbach from Cheadle Hulme.

The walk is just 5 miles, and fairly flat. It took 2 hours to complete plus 15 minutes for lunch .

This is a good walk for dog walkers, mainly on good tracks, very minor roads, canal towpath , and just a couple of fields of livestock.

The walk is on OS Explorer Map 267.

I parked off-road by the canal, use postcode CW11 3PW.

The Moat To Green Lane

I set off down Oakwood Lane and soon found that the marshy either on either side of the lane was spilling across the road. I wondered what it would be like after prolonged wet weather.

The marsh opened into a pretty pond to the left.

At the end of the pond a path (unsigned) led off the road to the left, through the Nature Reserve. It was quite unspoilt here, with fallen trees and nettles to negotiate, but easily passable.

Emerging at Yew Tree Farm, I took a path into a field, and was now clearly in farming country.

I joined Green Lane, another very leafy road, near to Greenbank Farm.

Green Lane To The Trent and Mersey Canal

I crossed the end of the line of flashes.

The flashes are formed as a result of subsidence due to the solution of underlying salt deposits, and are a popular fishing site. After following a track between fields from Ryecroft Cottage, the path runs alongside the flash before heading left to join a road at Tetton Hall.

The road led me to the canal at Tetton Bridge.

The next section of the walk runs alongside the busy A533, but the canal remains a source of quiet solitude.

There were other points of interest, such as this, seriously structurally damaged bridge.

Veering away from the road, the rural nature of the area was emphasised by a bright flash, as a kingfisher whizzed past me and on up the canal as I neared a former mill building.

I stopped at the lock for lunch before taking the final half mile to the car.

This walk was just what I wanted today – a relaxed, easy, gentle countryside ramble.

And Finally….

This isn’t easy and gentle. From the new album “In The Wild”, this is “Jailbird” by The Interrupters.

Bouncy and punky, I like it!