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ChoWhe One has you leave the canal (if heading north) at Town Lane to follow roads for three quarters of a mile, rather than stay on the canal longer, to Top Lock where the pub is, to use a quieter, shorter road access to Wheelton, which is preferable in my opinion. I’ve also used Seymour Street to leave Chorley Station, which arrives to cross the main road at a zebra crossing
ChoWhe One has you leave the canal (if heading north) at Town Lane to follow roads for three quarters of a mile, rather than stay on the canal longer, to Top Lock where the pub is, to use a quieter, shorter road access to Wheelton, which is preferable in my opinion. I’ve also used Seymour Street to leave Chorley Station, which arrives to cross the main road at a zebra crossing
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Chorley
Grid Ref
SD5865517518
Lat / Lon
53.65253° / -2.62700°
Easting / Northing
358,655E / 417,518N
What3Words
shot.gender.kinks
Wheelton
Grid Ref
SD6002421188
Lat / Lon
53.68562° / -2.60677°
Easting / Northing
360,024E / 421,188N
What3Words
appear.dorms.speeded
| Chorley | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SD5865517518 |
| Lat / Lon | 53.65253° / -2.62700° |
| Easting / Northing | 358,655E / 417,518N |
| What3Words | shot.gender.kinks |
| Wheelton | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SD6002421188 |
| Lat / Lon | 53.68562° / -2.60677° |
| Easting / Northing | 360,024E / 421,188N |
| What3Words | appear.dorms.speeded |
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review
Mary Oz
25 Apr 2024A lovely, interesting route using the towpath of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal as far as possible. I was pleasantly surprised by the off-road footpath from Grey Heights View in Chorley to reach the canal. The towpath was mostly compacted gravel, with some recently added, less compacted bits, which were a bit less comfortable to walk on. After passing under the M61, there was some building work going on at Botany Bay, but soon the route started to become quieter.
There are mileposts dotted along a lot of the L&L Canal and the one that shows 47 miles to Liverpool, which is opposite “Health Club” on the OS Map at OS Grid Ref: SD 591201 is particularly special as it has been half consumed by a tree trunk!
Soon after this, the route passes some very nice canalside housing, then reaches Johnson’s Hillock Locks. At this point there is the very short remnant of where the Lancaster Canal originally joined the Leeds and Liverpool.
In fact, it was originally to be the Lancaster Canal all the way from Kendal to Wigan. The Lancaster Canal was never quite completed because they ran out of money to build an aqueduct over the River Ribble in Preston, having splurged it all on the Lune Aqueduct in Lancaster. Only a track for horse-drawn trams connected the sections of Lancaster Canal together, between Clayton Brook (at OS Grid Ref: SD 583246) and close to where Preston Railway Station is. The section from here to Clayton Brook is still visible in places, but has been largely obliterated by the M61, and new housing.
The last section, past the series of locks, was very nice, but involved crossing a very quiet road with steepish slopes or steps, up and down from the towpath.
Wheelton had an imposing clock tower, a nice café, and a nice pub, which we were forced to make use of as we had just missed the hourly bus to Chorley. How sad (not).
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