(S/E) From the front door, turn right for a few yards and cross the main road with extreme care to a hand-gate into the field opposite. Cross the field, following a line of trees, to Utkinton Lane.
(1) Turn right past Utkinton Lodge Farm at the bottom of Hollins Hill. Carry straight on at the junction with Briar Lane. Cross the B5351 Stable Lane and walk past the church to the A49.
(2) Cross carefully and turn left. At a layby, take a restricted byway over the stream beyond the telephone booth. The byway starts as a narrow path then becomes a sunken way before meeting a wider track. Follow the track ahead; beyond Hunters Cottage it becomes a grassy green lane.
(3) At a crossroads of tracks, turn right; follow this track along the edge of Little Budworth Common for a little over half a mile until you meet a road. Turn left into the Country Park. After ¼ mile, turn left on a crossing riding track marked with a horseshoe waymark. The track crosses an open area; as it re-enters the trees, bear right, to skirt the woodland with open heathland on your immediate right. Pass through a belt of trees and cross a fenced path, keeping ahead on another path, still with trees to the left and heathland to the right.
(4) At the end of the open area, bear left through the trees to a track by a sign for Smithy Lane. Turn right and left onto a sandy track with the open lawns of a polo ground on your right.
(3) Follow the track to a crossroads; from this point on you are retracing your earlier steps. Go straight on, passing Hunters Cottage on your right. When the track bends right, take the path ahead, which leads down to the phonebox by the A49. Bear left along the pavement and cross at the road junction into Utkinton Lane.
Cross Stable Lane beyond the church. Pass the end of Briar Lane on the left and Hollins Hill on the right. Beyond Utkinton Lodge Farm, turn left over the stile and follow the path back to the A49 and the Alvanley Arms.(S/E)
