Chester walks

From Chester Wiki

Contents 1 Walks 2 Walking Tips 3 Mapping Tools 4 Further Information

[edit] Walks

Please feel free to add your walks.

• City walls
• Chester: a Virtual Stroll Around the Walls
• A Virtual Stroll Along the Mickle Trafford Railway
• Newton Hollows a short walk in Hoole
• Round Handbridge and Heronbridge - includes part of the Marches Way
• Steve Howe Railway Adventure - A Bridge too far?
• Route Canal - Telford's to the Cheshire Cat, Alice meets Tom?
• The City Council's list of Heritage Trails
• Estuary River Canal - a circular walk round town by river promenade and towpath
• The Long Haul - a very long (21km) circular walk (also possible by bike) along the River Dee and the Shotton-Chester Railway.
• Canal Road Railway - a 13km circular walk taking in Hoole and Christleton
• Saltney by River
• Long Way by Barrow to St Plegmunds well
• Upton-Zoo-Canal

[edit] Walking Tips

tips for the longer distance stuff

[edit] Mapping Tools

• Rights of way in Cheshire (and some quite useful map tools).

• A really impressive map tool can be found here. In the highest resolution the most modern map is quite stunning.

• This site is for canal folk but has excellent and up to date land maps.

• Some more old maps
• A draggable UK map centred on Chester - click on the map for the "Geograph" pictures collection

• The local history group at Upton have created an impressive map

• yell.com have a map showing hole-in-the-wall machines, dentists and other essentials.

[edit] Further Information

• Chester Rambling and Walking

• County Council list of walks in Cheshire.

• A link to the Ramblers Association - they have a page on the Marches Way

• Some books on walking in Cheshire

• Mid-Cheshire Footpath Association

• The website of CheshireWalkers

• The "Fresh Air" site.

• Ecoserts website.

• Cheshire walking info on Wiki.

• The Northern Eye Books site

• A Cheshire walking "blog"