(S/E) From the front door of the Cheshire Cheese, cross the road and turn left along the main village street. Cross the River Wheelock and then keep right at the telephone box. Beyond Brook Farm, continue to the first terrace of houses on the right and take the driveway on your right beside them. Go through the gate ahead of you and cross the field to a gate into the farmyard. Turn left and follow the track through three gateways.
(1) After the third gate, turn half-right (indicated by a waymark) and walk down towards the river. Follow the hedge round to the left (with the river on your right) then bear right along a fence to a kissing gate. Continue with the hedge on your left and the river on your right until the hedge terminates at the end of a rough track on the left.
(2) Cross to a footbridge over a side-stream ahead. Bear right to a second footbridge and then follow the bottom of the next field, close to the river. After a stile and further footbridge, leave the river and head diagonally uphill, towards Fields Farm and to a stile in the far corner of the field. Follow the farm track between weighbridge and barn and keep left of the farmhouse entrance to meet a lane.
(3) Turn right to a gate by the railway line. Follow the path between the Flash (right) and the railway line (left), crossing the River Wheelock partway along, until you climb to meet the canal by the railway bridge.
(4) Turn right (away from the bridge), along the towpath. After three-quarters of a mile, pass a canal milepost and under bridge 157. After a further quarter-mile pass under bridge 156, which carries the access road for the water treatment works on your right. After bridge 155 you approach Wheelock Wharf again, with houses on the opposite bank.
(5) Go under the road bridge then, beyond the old wharf buildings on your right, double-back right through the Crewe Road Car Park to return to the Cheshire Cheese.(S/E)
