313 Friday 10th April to Sunday 12th April 2026 Chester Weekend

 I took the Friday off work for this one. On the Friday, we drove over to Dragon  Garden Centre for  lunch before moving on to Middlewood where we parked for continuing our station to station walk. 

We  had  a  pleasant walk through fields and valleys to the Poynton road but  shortly after that we were flummoxed by the new Airportroad which wasn't on my pretty recent map. Eventually, we  worked ot where we  were and had a very pleasant walk through the Ladybrook valley before  a  rather drab finish   through Bramhall to its station. We caught the train to Stockport then one back to Middlewood. Sorry for the lack of photographs

We  then drove on to Chester YHA. We had our evening meal at the hostel.

Next morning we drove to Chester and parked at the station. We caught the train to Rhyl then a bus to Rhuddlan for the castle. The video we filmed can be seen here.


We  then caught the bus back to Rhyl where we  hurried into a chippy for lunch as the rain came hard


After that, we went to Rhyl Miniature Railway. The video we filmed can be seen here


After that we caught the large train back to Chester  and ate at the hostel once more



The  next  morning we  went  to church in Chester then drove to Warrington to continue the walk alongside the Mersey. The footage we filmed can be seen here.


We  had lunch at  a  pub at the end of our walk.

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