Sandstone Trail

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Southern section of the Sandstone Trail near Bickley, showing the footprint waymarker

The Sandstone Trail is a 32 mile (51 km) long-distance walkers' path, following sandstone ridges running north–south from Frodsham in central Cheshire to Whitchurch just over the Shropshire border. The path was created in 1974 and extended in the 1990s. It is waymarked with yellow discs with a footprint inscribed 'S'.

Part of the path is used for the Sandstone Trail races (16.8 & 9.8 miles), the longer of which has been run since 1977.

[edit] Sights

Sights passed include:

• Woodhouse Hill Fort, an iron age fort
• Alvanley Cliff
• Delamere Forest
• Peckforton Castle and the Peckforton Hills
• Wharton's & Willeymoor locks of the Shropshire Union Canal
• Beeston Castle
• Bickerton Hills and Maiden Castle, an iron age fort

Rock formation on the northern section, near Frodsham

[edit] See also

• Recreational walks in Cheshire

[edit] External links

• Cheshire County Council: The Sandstone Trail
• Sandstone Trail race

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