Year Twelve Summary

Walk 1: March 18 2017 Frodsham 6 miles Jane, Tracey, Donna and Hilary

Walk 2: April 8 2017 Kettleshulme 7 miles Hilary and Jane

Walk 3: May 20 2017 Llanddulas Weekend 11 Miles Donna, Tracey and Hilary

Walk 4: June 24 2017 Sandbach Flashes and The River Wheelock 6.5miles Jane, John and Helen

Walk 5: July 15 2017 Rawhead 5.5 miles Hilary Jane and Carol

Walk 6: Aug 19 2017 Acton and 'The Shroppie' 5.5miles Donna and Hilary

Walk 7: Sept 16 2017 Lower Withington Tracey, Donna, Hilary and Carol

Walk 8: Oct 14 2017 The Hayhurst Arms Carol, Tracey and Hilary

Walk 9: Nov 18 2017 Astbury Mere Carol, Hilary, Donna and Tracey

Walk 10: Jan 6 2018 A walk from Carol’s House + planning 6.5 miles Carol, Hilary, Donna, Tracey and Jane

Walk 11: Feb 10 2018 Around Kelsall 5 miles Jane, Tracey, Donna and Hilary

Around Kelsall

Saturday 10 February 2018 5 miles

Jane, Tracey, Donna and Hilary

The weather started wet and the forecast was for rain to fall all day. Going up into the hills was not going to be a good idea. I looked for other walks, but it was one that I found just before I left the house that we decided to do. Hilary thought the weather might be a bit better to the west, so the Kelsall walk seemed like the best choice. 

We put on our waterproofs straight away. There were other walkers parked up and getting ready to walk, so rain doesn't put everyone off. Over the years we have been really lucky with the weather, so we are not really weather hardened!

It was cool to start with. Under the trees in Delamere Forest was really cool. Once we left the woods we were a bit warmer. 

There were some lovely looking sandstone cottages on Yeld Lane that had just been renovated. The quite small Yeld Lane Farm Cottage was £275,000 and Yeld Lane Farm was empty and like a lovely conversion was £595,000, the only thing was that the building was right next to the road, the garden was for parking as well. There was also a brick new build as well.

The Walk took us through Kelsall with lots of houses to look at. We went down the main road, through some alleyways and then worked our way back onto the hillside. 

The views over the countryside towards Chester are lovely. We walked down through little Switzerland and passed the variety of houses. We walked up the road, but once we joined the path to go to Delamere Forest it was mud, mud, mud all the way. A group of walkers were coming the other way the only thing to do was to hang on to the fence and stand out of the way because it was very slippy underfoot.

It was warm walking under the trees through Delamere Forest. Again the paths were muddy, I walked on the path but the others walked through the trees.

There wasn't really anywhere to stop for lunch as everywhere was so wet. We did manage to find a few rocks under the trees to sit on not too far from the car park. We could see the countryside to each side as the path goes along a ridge but we were also near the road, so we were aware of the traffic noise. We soon cooled down as we were sitting still.

We went to Tarporley Garden Centre although there wasn't a lot of time between lunch and 
cake. Tracey and I did manage tea and some apple cake with blackcurrant jam in the middle.

Get Together

Saturday 3 February
 

Meal at the Hayhurst 
In the private dining room