The Eddisbury Way Part 1 - Walk / Run Frodsham to Kelsall, Cheshire

This week we’re running the Eddisbury way in Cheshire. The footpath runs from Frodsham in the north to Higher Burwardsley in the south. I’ve divided the route into two sections and today we are running the first section from Frodsham to Kelsall. Later in the week I ran the second section as a Patreon exclusive from Kelsall to Higher Burwardsley.

It’s a lovely route, almost all off road. If you are going to follow in my footsteps, I’d suggest taking a phone with a mapping app eg OS Maps and also watching the video carefully before you go as there are several places where the path is not well signposted and difficult to follow, in fact there is one part where I gave up looking for the path and followed the edge of a field to get to a road. All that being said, I can heartily recommend a visit, its beautiful countryside.

The Route

Starting from Mill Lane at Sutton Weaver on the edge of Frodsham cross the Frodsham Bridge by the Marina and then take the cut between the row of terraced houses (opposite the bus stop). Follow the path, when it meets another track turn left and then at the fork go right into Hob Hey Woods. When you reach the bridge turn left and follow the path to Watery Lane. Turn left and at the junction go straight on along Watery Lane. Take the second path on the right. The path crosses Watery Lane again, cross and go straight on up the rise. When you reach the road turn left and immediately right on Such Pit lane and then take the track on your left. Follow this until you see a footpath on your right, the path continues in the same direction in the field. Follow the track to the road where you turn right and immediately left on the bend. Follow the path which heads down the field then left coming out on Norley Road in Kingsley. Turn right and then right again into Meeting House Lane and immediately left into Waterloo Lane. Half way to the forest at the crossroads take the track on your right then the footpath on the left over the fields. You recross Waterloo Lane and go straight on up into the edge of the forest. At the cross roads, go straight on over the fields to New Pale Road and turn left dropping down the hill to Manley Common. At the bend there are two paths on your left, the first is the Sandstone Trail path into  Delamere Forest, but we want the second that heads around a field and down the bank to some woods. This is where I went wrong. The path is definitely meant to go straight on through the woods across the field on the far side to the railway bridge then left down the lane to Brines Brow but I couldn’t find the path and so eventually I gave up and  instead followed the edge of the field which comes out at the next railway bridge and then turned right on Delamere road and left into Brines Brow. I would strongly suggest looking at the video and a satellite view of the path so you don’t go wrong like I did.

From Brines Brow head up the bank to Brines Brow Lane and turn left, at the bend by the farm take the path on your right through the farmyard and across the field. Continue to follow the marked footpath here until you reach Longley Lane where you turn right. You will reach a footpath on your left, take this and climb the field and enjoy the views towards Ellesmere Port before following the path through the Strawberry Fields, across the main road into Kelsall. At Brooms lane turn right and then right into Grub Lane. Drop down the bank to your destination, the Morris Dancer Pub.