{"id":1008850,"date":"2024-07-18T20:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.half-daywalker.com\/?p=1008850"},"modified":"2024-07-18T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T19:50:00","slug":"great-warford-near-mobberley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.half-daywalker.com\/?p=1008850","title":{"rendered":"Great Warford, Near Mobberley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A beautiful summer’s day, with a little floaty white cloud. This is quite a local, short walk in farming country, between Wilmslow and Knutsford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This walk is just 5.6 miles long, generally flat, and took 2 hour 30minutes plus a 15 minute lunch break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The journey is about 25 minutes each way by car from Cheadle Hulme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not great for dog walkers, lots of farmland, and lots of road sections too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I walked in an anti-clockwise direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The walk is on OS Explorer Map 268.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I parked on the road, outside the now sadly closed Frozen Mop pub., postcode WA16 7AL. What 3 Words \/\/\/ someone.purple.surpassed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Frozen Mop To Wilmslow Golf Club<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I set off up Faulkner’s Lane. This carved horse’s head caught my eye. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I took the road to the right at the first junction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re not sure about sharing fields with cows, don’t take the right, just go ahead to Ancoats Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I left the road at Pedley House Farm, And just got through the field before the inquisitive cows noticed me and followed my lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A short way further on, thankfully this big fella and his harem, and their offspring, were on the other side of a fence from me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Soon, I was back on the road, but it’s a pretty lane here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The lush fairways of Wilmslow Golf Club run alongside Warford Lane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Great Warford<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The garden at Springfield is beautiful, including a male peacock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I stopped for lunch in the small copse here, before making my way to the path that crosses a small stream. It was very overgrown with nettles, brambles and himalayan balsam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking back, it was a lovely rural scene, the path through now invisible!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noah’s Ark Lane To The Frozen Mop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The whole of the route is dotted with modern mansions overlooking the farmland, like this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And then there was this one, with the red Rolls Royce strategically parked in front of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At Paddockhill, I found I was on the way to The Plough and Flail – not been in there for a few years now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around the corner is this pretty thatched cottage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beyond Knutsford Road a track leads to a stile and down a field towards Swim Brook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beyond the trees is the pool in my featured header picture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back at Faulkner’s Lane it’s about 100 metres left to the car, though my 0.6 mile extension to the route heads right and down a lane to cross Mobberley Brook at Coppock House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Heading round the house, the route then takes in another couple of fields holding cattle, so I’d say this extension to the walk is not really worth taking in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is another interesting, easy lowland walk in this part of the Cheshire plain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Finally….<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been listening to the US country star Carly Pearce’s new album, Hummingbird, this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a sample – a simple tale of revenge – it’s Truck On Fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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