This week, we combined our previous Beacon and Helsby Hill routes, to create an epic seven mile walk that is perfect if you are dying to escape the inside of their house!

• Begin at Simon's Lane car park, which has space for about 10 cars and leads to a gate and a sign which reads, 'Access to the Beacons'. Once upon a time, an Armada beacon stood here, to warn local people of an imminent Spanish invasion!

• Walk down the lane towards Bellemonte Road, and turn left towards Frodsham Hill War Memorial.

• Having walked past the war memorial and enjoyed the sweeping view of Frodsham and the Mersey Estuary, follow the footpath down to the right towards Frodsham Hill Wood.

• Continue straight through the woods, following the Sandstone Trail signs.

• You will eventually reach a sort of T-junction, where Frodsham Golf Course nudges the edge of the woods. Here, you will see a sign reading Beacon Hill Car Park / Frodsham Centre / Manley Common, Delamere.

• Head to the right towards Manley Common and down first some wooden, and then some metal steps into Dunsdale Hollow.

• As you move through this depression, the golf course to your left, the sheer sandstone cliffs of the forest to your right, you will come across Jacob's Ladder. These steps, named after the biblical 'stairway to Heaven', were carved into the rock in Victorian times to help people negotiate the steep scramble of the woodland.

• Follow the Sandstone Trail sign to the left and continue along the path, until the Trail draws you up over another set of carved stone steps and back onto the golf course boundary (which will sit to your left).

• As the path wends its way through the rich woodland, it suddenly opens out on a stunning view of Helsby, the Mersey estuary and Liverpool in the distance.

The Mersey basin, and the sandstone ridges which you see before you, were formed during the last Ice Age. As you continue on your walk, you might spot ice-rounded boulders, glacial erratic which were deposited by ice sheets moving down from north-east Ireland and Scotland over 20,000 years ago.

• Continue straight along the woodland cliff edge – instead of climbing up to the left - until you reach a Woodhouse Hill Wood sign straight ahead of you.

• To your right you will spot a steep stepped path descending to the road level. Follow it down and go through the kissing gate onto the lane, which will lead you down to Tarvin Road.

• Turn left and then almost immediately right onto Chestnut Lane, which you should follow right to the end. Cross over a bridge and climb some steps into a scrubby field.

• Crossing Proffits Lane, enter a field and join the North Cheshire Way. Head for a kissing gate, which gives onto a narrow path in between fences.

• You will emerge onto Bates Lane, where you turn left and head past Hill Road North for a Helsby Hill sign on your right.

• Follow this footpath as it snakes up through the fields towards the top of Hill Road North, where a left turn will bring you quickly to the entrance of Harmers Wood.

During the 19th century, Harmers Wood was the site of a sandstone quarry, whose stone was used for local buildings, including Helsby's St Paul's Church.

• Once out of the wood and back onto the lane, turn right and then right again to reach the top of Helsby Hill, standing proudly above the Cheshire Plain.

• Head down the other side of the hill, through the wintry tangle of trees. When the woods begin to fall away, head straight on towards Hill Road North.

• Walk to the left down the road, take a right onto Bates Lane and then a left back onto Tarvin Road.

• Just as the road begins to bend sharply to the left, turn right onto The Ridgeway, with Foxhill Arboretum up above you to your left.

• After following the road up to Spirit of the Herd's pop up cake stall, you will see a Sandstone Trail sign to your left.

• This will lead you back towards Woodhouse Hill wood, through Snidley Moor.

• Heading up through the sunken, rooty paths of the old wood, you will eventually reach the edge of the trees, and a junction.

• Follow the path heading left, which skirts along the edge of a field before offering another left turn up into Woodhouse Hill Wood.

• After cresting the 137-metre-high summit of Woodhouse Hill, descend towards the Helsby and Liverpool viewpoint that you passed earlier on.

• Turn right through the woods and back past the golf course, descending the sandstone steps you climbed at the beginning of the walk.

• At the bottom, you can turn right and then immediately left to walk up onto the golf course.

• Keep to the path on the edge of the course, which undulates down into the woods before rising up onto the open fairways once again.

• When you reach a sign for the seventeenth tee, start crossing straight over the golf course, heading for a wooded footpath on the other side.

• This will bring you – finally – back to Simon's Lane, where a quick right turn will return you to your car.

Delamere Forest

Primrosehill Wood

Bickerton Hill

Beeston Castle

Peckforton