Whixall Walks – 3. Circling Stanley Green

Walk directions

1. Start

   Turn left out of the car park at the church and follow Church Lane for about a quarter of a mile until you reach Oak Cottage on your left. Take the stile to the left of the cottage driveway and continue ahead over two more stiles. A few steps after the second stile, turn right and go through a gap in the trees to cross the walk boards.

2. Step 2

   Cross the middle of this field towards a group of large trees at approximately 1 o'clock from the walk boards where there is another stile. Crossing this, turn half-right past a pond towards the closest house, Mill House Cottage.

3. Step 3

   Keeping the house on your right follow the hedge line enclosing the garden, onto the track and through the farm gate. Continue straight on the track past Mill House Farm to a lane (Sandy Bank). Cross the road and go over the stile opposite, to the left of a farm gate. Continue ahead to stile in hedgerow, and then follow an obvious path across at a left hand angle to the next stile. Bear slightly right, passing behind Higher House Farm, over the next two stiles, to a field gate where you come out onto a road.

4. Step 4

   Cross the road and go over stile ahead, follow hedge line, go past pond and turn right towards another stile. Go over the stile and cross the field to the far right corner. Go over the stile onto a footpath between trees. This emerges next to a house at the top of Garners Lane. Ignoring the official diversion sign which relates to another footpath, continue to follow Whixall Walks signs to the end of the lane where it joins a road. Turn left (past another half-timbered house), immediately looking out for a stile on the right opposite Lower House stables.

5. Step 5

   Keep to the hedgerow along the right hand side of the field and cross the next stile maintaining the same direction. Crossing the next field you will go over a stile into Church Lane opposite Oak Cottage. Turn left along Church Lane, retracing the start of the route back to the church car park.