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Little Moreton Hall - circular walk via Mow Cop and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night production by Anvil Productions.
Optional Tickets: for show: £12, payable in advance; grounds: £7.40 payable on site
Distance: 8 miles
Duration: 3.5h
Difficulty: 2
Our day in historic British countryside will start with the arrival at Little Moreton Hall near Congleton. This moated 15-centrury half-timbered manor house is one of the finest examples of timber-framed domestic architecture in England. It is Grade I listed and currently belongs to the National Trust. Admission price is £7.40 and it includes a free guided tour of the house.
After the tour we will go on a gentle 8 mile walk in the surrounding countryside, walking along the Cheshire Way and Staffordshire Gritstone Way, along the canals and through some parkland, until we reach Mow Cop, a picturesque village on a high isolated hill and home to the Mow Cop castle, a folly built in 1754 and the Old Man of Mow, a man-shaped rock formation at the site of an ancient cairn.
From Mow Cop we will descend to the village of Scholar Green and about half-way through the walk we’ll have a meal at The Rising Sun pub, famous for its shortcrust pies. Then we will continue along another local attraction, Rode Hall (an XVIII century brick hall) and back to Little Moreton to finish our circular walk.
Once there, it’s time to unpack your blankets, picnic baskets and camping chairs, and find a spot to view the open-air production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night by the award winning Alsager Community Theatre. Gates open at 7pm and the show will start at 7:30, finishing at 9pm (tickets £12).
Kit list: hat, gloves, warm clothes, waterproof jacket and trousers, walking trousers walking boots as may be slippy tea flask.
Regular walking can...
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fill you with energy and confidence
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help you beat stress
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make your heart fitter and strengthen your bones
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help you keep your weight down
