(S/E) From the front door, cross and turn left. Go through the lychgate into the churchyard; keep right of the church to the Norman Chapel and turn right. Turn left by a tree and exit the churchyard by a gate. Turn left and take the path to the right of the Abbey Mill entrance. Head downhill around a field then bear right, parallel with the river, to a footbridge.
(1) For the shorter route, turn left on the far bank and rejoin the route at step (5). Otherwise, turn right. At the end of the trees, pass through a kissing gate into Riverside Park. Cross the meadow with the river on your right. At a footpath sign at the far end of the field, turn left and walk up to the railway.
(2) Pass under a low bridge and bear right, with the railway now on your right and a golf course on your left. At the end of the golf course follow the path to the left, with a wooded valley on your right; ignore a path down to the stream, continuing with houses on your left until you reach Dorchester Way.
(3) Cross and join the path opposite; at a junction turn right onto a curving path and cross the stream. Keep left along Lindrick Close, then follow a path to the left of the last house. Cross the first footbridge but not the second, to emerge at the end of Gleneagles Drive.
(4) Follow the path left of the road to Dorchester Way. Cross and take a few steps to the left, then turn right into the Tytherington Golf Club. Turn immediately left onto a track by a footpath sign. When the track bends left, strike out across the course following waymark posts. Pass to the left of a pond and cross a stream, then climb past the 12th tee to a fence at the top of the course. Turn left, then right through a kissing gate. Cross to another kissing gate, and beyond it follow the right-hand field edge. Continue above a stream on your right, then drop down through the trees to cross a footbridge. Keep left, the stream now on your left, and cross the field to a bridge under the railway.
(5) At the end of Bridge Green, go through a gate onto a narrow path between the houses and the River Bollin, which rejoins the road shortly. Walk out to the main road. Turn left over the river and follow the main village street back to the Legh Arms.(S/E)
