Description
Slight rewrite of original due to closed or blocked footpaths
Slight rewrite of original due to closed or blocked footpaths
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Kirkby
Grid Ref
SJ4103798727
Lat / Lon
53.48196° / -2.88997°
Easting / Northing
341,037E / 398,727N
What3Words
gazed.struck.popped
Rainford
Grid Ref
SD4779900848
Lat / Lon
53.50174° / -2.78844°
Easting / Northing
347,799E / 400,848N
What3Words
jazz.knots.beam
| Kirkby | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SJ4103798727 |
| Lat / Lon | 53.48196° / -2.88997° |
| Easting / Northing | 341,037E / 398,727N |
| What3Words | gazed.struck.popped |
| Rainford | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SD4779900848 |
| Lat / Lon | 53.50174° / -2.78844° |
| Easting / Northing | 347,799E / 400,848N |
| What3Words | jazz.knots.beam |
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review
Hiking Historian
10 Nov 2023A good (revised) route between the two towns through some lovely countryside once we're away from the urban areas.
From the centre of Kirkby, with its shops and bus station, we cross the road at the roundabout, before entering Millbrook Millennium Green on a tarmac path, overlooking the river Alt below. Once under a railway bridge, we turn onto Boyes Brow, then continue ahead at the crossroads onto Headbolt Lane.
The area is being heavily redeveloped, and the route map does not reflect what is on the ground now, so the new route has been drawn as close as possible to as it now appears.
Once past the railway and its car parks, a tarmac path arcs to the left to the houses. Along a residential road, we soon find another tarmac footpath which takes us through Tower Hill Park.
Once through Tower Hill estate, we're onto Stopgate Lane, and enter West Lancashire, and the countryside. The pavement does narrow in places to almost a kerb, but it's safe enough to use, and not a very busy road, but it is the best route, as all the surrounding footpaths have seemingly vanished!
At the end, we turn into a combination of holiday homes and fishery, where we access a track of earth and loose stone. This zigzags across the field, before climbing over a rail bridge and onto my favourite section: a long, leafy farmtrack.
A few more tracks past a farm brings us to a wooded unpaved road, but there's not much traffic and only serves a small industrial estate in an old WW2 logistics base. At the end, we cross the dual carriageway, then up a short unpaved road, before joining the main road into Rainford and its end, near bus stops, shops and pubs.
A very enjoyable rural walk, but some of the tracks may be foot-only, especially in wet weather, as well as the narrowing pavement as mentioned before.
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