[1] After walking the to the end of Astbury Street, a footpath leads around to the left of Astbury Mere.
(A) Astbury Mere is a worked out sand quarry used for a mixture of water sports and conservation.
Take the left fork to the houses at Bankyfields Crescent. Go forward at the crescent to Waggs Road. Turn right and walk along Waggs Road, which shortly becomes Fol Hollow, to the junction with the A34, the Congleton to Newcastle road. Turn left at the main road and walk along for about 300 metres.
[2] By the car park of the Egerton Arms, cross the road and enter a narrow farm lane (Bent Lane) which carries a ‘No Through Road’ sign. In about one kilometre the lane leads to Bent Farm. The route is now part of the Dane Valley Way (DVW). From Bent Farm a bridleway winds around the edge of a working sand quarry and out onto a lane. Turn right on the lane and in a short distance it leads to the main A534 road between Congleton and Sandbach.
Turn right along the main road for about 500 metres and turn left into a minor road (Sandy Lane).
[3] About 200 metres along the minor road turn off left onto a public footpath. This leads in about a kilometre to Lower Medhurst Green Farm. Turn right onto a farm road which leads past the farm buildings. Take the footpath which goes off to the left shortly after the farm. This footpath follows field boundaries and leads directly to Home Farm and a minor road.
[4] Turn right onto the road. It leads past Smethwick Green Farm to a sharp right-hand bend with Smethwick Hall Farm on the left and a footpath straight ahead across the fields. Take that footpath. It leads across the fields to the right of Bag Mere, a floating peat bog with only a very small area of open water. Shortly after Bag Mere the path leads onto a minor road close to a junction of three roads and a bridleway, the latter to the right of a house.
[5] Take the bridleway. It leads past Bagmere Bank Farm straight to Brereton Church and Brereton Hall. Opposite the church cross a stile and take the footpath across a stream and fields to a minor road.
Turn left on the minor road. After about 800 metres, just after the road junction by Lightfoot Green Farm, take the footpath on the right which leads in almost a straight line to the A50. Turn left along the A50 for about 100 metres, then take the footpath on the right to Taxmere Farm and follow the path diagonally right through two fields and then via a wooded footpath to Brickhouse Farm and the A534. Please note that the high embankment on the left which guards the sand quarry, is private land.
[6] Cross the A534 and turn right to cross the M6 by Junction 17. Continue down the A534, ignoring a road to the right opposite the petrol station. Cross the A534 again and keep to the right-hand verge. Shortly there is a footpath. Follow this footpath round to a track which skirts a lake on the left and leads into the old part of Sandbach town. At the end of the track turn right for Scotch Common where there are bus stops for the K38 bus.