Around Chester Walls, The Greenway and More 19th August 2023

The start of our walk around the City walls.

Chester Weir from The Walls.

The view from the Lower Bridge Street where next time round my hat was blown off!

Watergate Tower.

Still quite busy on Eastgate Street.

Chester Roodee looking good.

A Mute swan family seen from our lunch spt at the canal basin near Telford's Warehouse.

Looking across the canal basin past our lunch spot (on the right).

The Greenway heading towards Newton Hollows.

The path through Newton Hollows.

Walk Stats:
Distance: 9.2 miles. Climb: 407’.
Time: 4 hours 0 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.9 m.p.h.
Overall walk average: 2, 4 m.p.h.
Temperature:  21.0 Celsius, felling like 24.0 Celsius
Beaufort Wind force: 0 – 4, mainly a gentle breeze, but occasionally gusting to a moderate breeze, enough to blow your hat off.
Group: Martyn and Ed.
The forecast for today in North Wales wasn’t looking good with rain and gale force winds on the cards. Chester seemed to be blessed with a much better weather, so at the last minute we decided to do a walk from Chester. I used the local bus and Ed used the train from Abergele.
We started the walk by going around the City Walls, before heading on the Riverside Path to pick up the Shropshire Union Canal by the Canal Basin at Telford’s Warehouse.
On the latter part of our walk we followed The Greenway as far as the Kingsway / Flookersbrook turn off, a section of the Greenway I hadn’t used before.
A first time bonus for me today was to follow the path through Newton Hollows.
The last part of the walk was along the Canal Towpath from Hoole Lane back to City Road and a refreshing pint of Acorn Chocco Porter at The Square Bottle. Gwynt y Draig Cider also went down well.