Sunday morning, the day after our walk around the Sandstone Trail, was hot and sunny. The heat wave had really arrived. We had a late breakfast sitting in the garden and a couple of us were looking forward to watching England play Panama in the World Cup in the afternoon. But as some of us have itchy feet and don’t particularly like lounging around in the sun for too long, we decided to get out for a walk across the flat Cheshire countryside near Waverton. Steve and Anne suggested a walk to Walk Mill, a water powered flour mill with a café, a few miles away across the fields. Sounded like a good idea!
We started off walking along the canal
before cutting across the fields. Although we made sure we stuck to Rights of Way, the paths took us right through growing fields of maize, wheat rape and other crops.
and passing some typical Cheshire style houses
some of them very old
Eventually we reached Walk MIll
Although it’s now located in a new building, there’s been a water mill on this the site ever since around 1200. Although today it grinds grain to produce stone ground flour, it was originally a fulling mill for the treatment of cloth.
We stopped for a brew and then had a look around the mill
We set off back across the fields and arrived hot and sweaty and settled down to watch the match with a cool drink
Down by the Dougie 
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