That looks a lovely place for a walk! makes me want to walk there!
the first and last of the first set of photos are what i do each and every morning. it is the whitegate way which starts about 10m from my front door and is my rehab... it is what I will be cycling when I get this recumbent trike of mine... the muddy bit is just off it, and known to us as blackberry alley for obvious reasons. everyone else knowns it as Lobslack Way for less obvious reasons. it is one of the dusty's favourite walks and also out mtb cut through to Delamere forest, but you have to negotiate some railway sleeper steps (fine if your spine is OK) and a very short but very steep, sandy uphill and down hill so given the width of the path, the steps and that rise, I won't be doing it on the trike... mtb gears are not low enough for the climb unless you stand on the pedals and get the line correct, so no hope with the trike! but it is nice to just go a different way once in a while and we did meet a mtb'er along there (coming the easy direction)...
