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Saturday 29 June 

Gawsworth Hall - A Night of Queen

Whitegate Station walk

Saturday 22 June 4.75 miles

Hilary, Donna, Tracey and Jane

The weather had got a bit warm but sudden downpours were forecast, so there was the usual chat about what to wear. There was no forecast for rain so we just took fleeces in case it was cool in the morning.

This was a bit of a see where we go walk!! We started at Whitegate Station, and walked towards Winsford. We found the crossing path that came out onto Dalefords Lane. We saw the footpath sign for the path going across the fields to Beauty Bank, at the bend we turned right down what seemed like a path. We walked a little way down what seemed like a path but it disappeared, so had to returned to Beauty Bank and continued passed the houses.

Seeing the sign for a footpath we turned right and followed the footpath between the houses across the fields to Foxwist Green. As we were making it up as we went along we weren't sure which way to go. We met a man with a bike and asking if he knew if there was a footpath somewhere, he thought he had seen a footpath sign back the way he had come. He had been up to a farm to get his bike fixed.

Going down the road we came to a footpath sign and followed it. There was a llama in the field near the farmhouse. Continuing along the path we could hear a man cutting a hedge. We stopped to have a chat, he was keeping the holiday cottage garden tidy. It was fortunate that he had been cutting the hedge because it was a bit of a squeeze to get along the path, the hedge on the other side was overgrown.

At the end of the path we turned right onto Cinder Lane and walked to Whitegate Primary School and turned right into Grange Lane. Where the main road turned into Mill Lane we followed Grange Lane to go alongside the river, there were quite a few weeds when we got to the path.  It was pleasant to walk along side the Pettypool Brook eventually leading to the Whitegate Way. Here we climbed up the bank to join the path and walked along it to go back to the car.

We had tea and cake at the Station Cafe.