Pettypool Wood

This is a straightforward green walk, largely through pleasant woodland and farmland, with some stretches of quiet country lanes.

Green

28 September 2025

No dogs allowed

The walk starts and ends at the car park beside the Station House café on the Whitegate Way.
We head West along Whitegate way for the first Km, before turning north beside the fishing ponds, making our way towards Pettypool Woods.
Working clockwise through the woods, then back South again, we reach quiet lanes which we follow East to reach Foxwist Green. We leave the lane to follow more paths through meadow and farmland, rejoining the Whitegate Way a few hundred metres East of the car park.
If the weather should be uncomfortably hot, or otherwise grim, there is an opportunity to take a short cut back to the start point after approx. reducing the distance to around 8.5 Km.

Terrain:
Nearly all good paths or lanes. Easy, flat walking with a few short steeper sections. One section through a maize field needs pushing through maize foliage for a couple of hundred yards! We might re-route round this if necessary.
Map/Area:
OS 267 Northwich and Delamere Forest
Starting Point:
Whitegate Way Station House café GR: SJ615679
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Walk Starts:
10:00
Walk Finishes:
15:00
Distance:
11km
Ascent:
93m
Highest Point:
NA

Safety

Let the walk leader know of any relevant medical conditions

Refer to the Handbook for walk related information and specifically for recommended walking equipment and safety information

Remember you are responsible for being properly equipped

Ensure you have the walk leader’s phone number in case of an emergency

If you become detached from the group STOP, call out; try contacting group by phone or text. If no contact return to the last place you were with the group. Wait 30 mins repeatedly trying to make contact. After 30 mins seek help and/or make your own way safely.

The Google map below is the location of the walk start point.