Cycling
Chelford is a favourite venue for road racing and the roads of East Cheshire contain lots of varied cycle routes. We've collected together some links which may help you find new routes around the area.  If you would like to contribute your views on any cycling topics, please contact the Webmaster
Routes                                                                   Racing & Clubs
Middlewood Way                                                      Cheshire Roads Club
National Cycle Network                                             Cheshire cycling clubs links
Macclesfield Bicycle Users Group

Chelford Veterans' Football Team in the last game of the season
Macc. Town Supporters Club held Chelford Vets to a 4 - 4 draw in a friendly played at the Moss Rose ground.

Gaffer John Concannon was pleased with the result . Congratulations to Man of the Match, Paul Tomlinson, for his hatrick.

Thanks to Rob Kerr for organising the match.
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L: Gaffer, John Concannon
R: Man of the Match, Paul Tomlinson
Below R: Rob Kerr
Below: Half Time team talk
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L: Both Teams
R: Footy action

Photos kindly provided by Louise ConCannon
Chelford Junior Cricket Festival

For the first time in three years the sun shone almost continuously and allowed the 26th Junior Cricket Festival to run its full course. The teams involved produced some classic matches, some a bit one-sided, others very close. By 6.30pm the youngsters from Cheadle Hulme and Prestbury had battled their way to the final. Prestbury batted first and knocked up a phenomenal 134 runs in their ten overs. Cheadle Hulme to their credit went for the runs but the task was just too much and Prestbury ran out comfortable winners.

Barbara & Tony Icke
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Left: Young cricketers eyeing up the new bats

Right: Visitors enjoying the day

Below left: Prestbury 2009 Junior Cricket Winners

Below rt: The barbecue
Cubs Football at the double.

In the last two weeks the Chelford Cubs football squad has brought two trophies back to boost the Scout Group’s trophy cabinet. First a squad of six players won the District 5-a-side Tournament, beating off competition from 15 teams from across Macclesfield, Congleton, Wilmslow and surrounding villages.

After winning their group with an unbeaten record, the squad beat 24th Macclesfield and 1st Sutton in the quarter-final and semi-final respectively to set up the final against 1st Lindow. The final proved to be the boys’ toughest match of the tournament which ended in a 3 -3 draw at the final whistle.

After extra time the two teams could still not be separated so it went down to the dreaded penalty shoot out, which Chelford finally won to take the 5-a-side title.
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A week later and the full squad were back in league action in a crunch match against 1st Sutton. As the final match of the season, it was a simple equation; if Chelford won the match they would take the league title, but anything less and Sutton would win the trophy. Sutton took the lead before Chelford drew level just before half time, and the second half proved to be equally as tight. Moving into the last minute the scores were still locked at 1 – 1 which meant that Sutton would win the league, but then Chelford won a corner for what was likely to be their last chance. The boys have never been a team that gives up easily and that never say die attitude was to be rewarded as the ball nestled in the corner having been deflected off a Sutton player’s legs - a slice of luck maybe, but certainly one that was thoroughly deserved.

A great end to the season in which the boys played superbly, especially playing as a team rather than as a group of individual players and it was this togetherness and team ethic that proved to be the deciding success factor.

The successful Chelford Cubs Football Squad celebrates winning the league and 5-a-side double!

Ian Wilkes
Chelford Cubs Football Coach