This is the first of two volumes of circular canal-side walks which together take you round the whole 97 miles of The Cheshire Ring. It contains 23 walks ranging from four to eight and a half miles in length and covers the western side of The Ring. The walks take you along the Bridgewater Canal and The Trent and Mersey Canal, from the former's junction with the Rochdale Canal in the Castlefield area of Manchester in the north, to the latter's junction with the Macclesfield Canal at Hall Green near Kidsgrove in the south.