Tuesday Summer Run 1

Canal & Keckwick Hill (approx. 10 miles)

Leave Broomfields via the main gate, bare right and turn right on to Dingleway.
Follow Lumb Brook Road for just 100m until you pass under the bridge, turn immediately right to go up the footpath that leads to the canal towpath.
On reaching the canal towpath turn right.
The run now remains on the canal towpath for a number of miles passing in turn; the London Bridge Pub, Walton Gardens, the Walton Arms (Cut off One), underneath the Chester Road (Toast rack) bridge, and the General Store at Moore. (Cut off Two).
Leave the canal and cross over using the bridge before the Expressway, then follow the obvious path over the fields, eventually coming to the Expressway through some trees.
Follow the well signposted route to cross the Expressway, and continue on the well made new footpath until it brings you out on Keckwick Lane.
Cross Keckwick Lane and follow the footpath into the woods via a style and a short steep rise.
Follow the path up through and down out of the woods, emerging onto Delph Lane.
Turn left and run up Delph Lane until you reach Chester Road.
Take Care crossing Chester Road and continue on 30m, pass the bus stop on your right and turn left onto Old Chester Road.
Follow Old Chester Road into Dersbury Village, when you reach the Ring O'Bells pub turn right onto Dersbury Lane.
(NB the 'Alan Wright Detour' at this point allows you to follow the footpath on the right out of the village and through the field that almost always has cow in it. This path then brings you out onto Daresbury Lane)
Follow Daresbury Lane to its end opposite the Hatton Arms.
Turn left onto Warrington Road, then first right into Goose Lane.
Goose Lane has houses on both sides and eventually runs out at a gate.
Follow the obvious footpath keeping the large area of trees on your left hand side, the footpath runs through a small thicket of trees and bushes which can drain badly in wet weather.
Continue along the footpath until it runs out onto an uneven gravel path / roadway, follow this to the right as it passes a farm and then bends left at a cottage, after approx. 150m it comes to an end at the junction of Park Lane and Firs Lane
Follow Firs Lane, gaining height until at the top you reach the cemetery gates.
Turn right into Windmill Lane.
At the end turn left into Quarry Lane which drops sharply, at the bottom turn left into London Road.
Cross London Road at the traffic Lights, and turn next right into Broomfield's Road, continue on until the main entrance to Broomfields Leisure Centre on the right

Cut Off 1 - Run of about 5.3 miles

On reaching the Walton Arms come off the canal towpath and cross the canal using the hump back bridge, this is Warrington Road, continue running away from the Walton Arms until you come to the cross roads.
Turn left into Park Lane, once you reach the reservoir on your right; turn left into Hough's Lane.
At the end of Hough's Lane turn right into Walton Lea Road.
Follow Walton Lea Road until the small traffic island, continue straight on the road now becomes Whitefield Road. After 400m there is a junction of five roads, with a telephone box on the right.
Take the second road on the right Red Lane; continue over the canal, after the allotments turn left into Birchdale road.
At the fork in the road, go right into Birchdale Crescent, at the end turn right and cross London Road.
After 100m turn left into Broomfields Road, continue on until the main entrance to Broomfields Leisure Centre on the right.

Cut Off 2 - Run of about 7 miles

On reaching the General Store at Moore, come off the canal onto Runcorn Road and turn right.
After 100m turn left into Moor Lane, continue over two railway lines and downhill to the Swing Bridge.
At the cross roads (this is the entrance to the Nature Reserve) continue straight on, the road now becomes Lapwing Lane
Take the second footpath on the right through the gate and follow the obvious path which bends to the right over a wooden footbridge. Continue on into a small meadow (look out for rabbit holes).
At the stile do not go up the steps, but turn left and continue along with the lake on your left. At the end of the path go left again on a very wide path (the railway will now be on your right above you).
At the end of the path turn right and go under the two railway bridges, almost immediately come off the road to the left onto the obvious footpath which is signposted as the 'Transpennine Trail'. Follow this along with houses on your right until you reach Chester Road via a flight of steps.
Turn left and cross Chester Road using the Pelican Crossing and continue straight along the obvious footpath through the stile, slightly down hill. Follow this footpath around to the right past the flooded quarry, to the front of the houses on Greenhal's Avenue. The footpath goes around the side of the last house on the right of the row, then immediately left as it reaches the Ship Canal.
Continue along the path with the Ship Canal on your right, pass Morrisons on the left until you reach London Road at the Swing Bridge.
Turn right, cross the bridge and continue through Stockton Heath. At the cross roads continue straight on up London Road, over the canal.
After the London Bridge pub turn left into Dingleway.
When you reach St Monica's Church turn Right into Broomfields road, and on into Broomfields Leisure Centre directly ahead.