(S/E) From the front door, turn left and walk down the main village street past the church.
(1) Cross the river and turn left into Bollin Grove. Keep straight on past the school to the end of the road, and pass a playing field on your left. Continue beyond a gate into fields and turn left to cross the river. Follow the drive past a cattle grid then, at the entrance to Spittle House, turn left over a stile. Follow the path round the boundary of the property, then along a field edge to a kissing gate and down to a footbridge. The fenced path beyond bends through a series of paddocks to Lower Gadhole Farm.
(2) Turn left up the drive; at the entrance to Woodend Farm take the footpath opposite. Pass above a series of ponds then cross a stile. Follow the left-hand edge of two fields, ignoring a footpath on the left, then climb half-right up the hill to the buildings surrounding Legh Hall. Pass between gardens to a drive; turn right past Old Legh Hall.
(3) At the entrance to Legh Hall, turn right between brick walls. Go through a metal kissing gate at the end, and cross to a stile. Walk along the left-hand side of the field then cross a stile on your left. Bear right to another stile into a farmyard and walk out to a muddy lane.
(4) Turn left and immediately right into the drive to Woodside Cottage. Before the house, a gate on the left gives access to the golf course. Follow the fence then cross a fairway to a wood. At a path junction within the trees, turn right. On leaving the trees, follow the waymarked path to the left of a fairway and cross to a stile above the river. Turn right and follow the path down to a footbridge over the Bollin.
(5) Turn right, with the river on your right, and cross a field to a kissing gate into woodland. Continue through the trees; you will find yourself walking between the river on your right and a water treatment plant on your left. Eventually, you reach a kissing gate into a field; continue alongside the river to the Spittle House bridge that you crossed earlier. Stay on the left-hand side of the river and pass the playing field, squash club and school on your right.
(1) Retrace your steps along Bollin Grove; at the main road, turn right over the river and pass the church to return to the Legh Arms.(S/E)
