Walking on the Wildside

Saturday 8 November 8.5 miles
Jane, Tracey, Donna, Hilary

I woke up to wind and rain - I thought it was going to be another bad weather day for me!

John drove us to the start of the walk in Crewe as it was a one-way walk. He dropped us at Moss Bridge. We started the walk but the railway bridge was closed, we started walking to the next but were told by some workmen on the line that bridge was closed as well! Great start to the walk.

We went back to the bridge and walked along the road - we found a sign telling us that there was a diversion - this information was posted too late. Anyway we were able to start the walk. It seemed like it was going to rain but it didn't.

We needed the OS map to check where we were going.The path wasn't very clear in places.

There were cows in a few fields and one lot came running towards us - they probably thought we had food for them. It is a good job Hilary is comfortable around cows!

Stopped at Winterley for lunch. We were ready to eat. There were benches by the pool so we sat down and had our eats and a chat. The bench sat the 4 of us comfortably.

Met a bull, Hilary said it would be OK to go through the field, but it was looking at us as we came towards the field and making a lot of noise. We did go into the field keeping to the edge with Hilary on the outside protecting us! She bent to pick up a twig and the bull jumped away from us - turned out to be a bit of a softy!

The sun shone as we were passing Haslington Hall the trees were pretty, we could see a bit of the hall - a proper Tudor house.

We crossed the golf course, the trees with their autumn colours looked quite beautiful in the sunshine. Tracey got her wish to walk through a wood and the coloured leaves.

There were a lot of stiles on this route - it managed to show us unfit we have become!!

We arrived at Weston and thankfully there was a pub by the church where we had tea and shared some cake.