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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Kirkby and Rainford.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Kirkby and Rainford.
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Route status - Live
Reviews - 1
Average rating -
Is this route good enough? - No (1)
Problems reported - Access (1)
Downloads - 1
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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
Kirkrai One's land is
| 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 |
| Arable | 63.1% |
| Green urban | 13.1% |
| Urban | 23.8% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
review
Hiking Historian
10 Nov 2023It promised so much, but there are chunks of this that are impossible.
Almost straight from the off, the route fails. Once we've left the centre of Kirkby, we get to the footpath at Millbrook School, which is also marked on OS maps. Unfortunately, this starts past the school gate, and runs right into a locked gate at the rear of the main building, so that's a no.
Once into Millbrook Millennium Green, the footpath is supposed to run alongside the river Alt, but this is often boggy, so it's best to use the higher tarmac path.
The next section brings us into Tower Hill, and the route ahead has been obliterated by the new Headbolt Lane station building works. The footpath under the road bridge no longer exists, but there's a new footpath that runs close to the original course.
Once through Tower Hill and onto Stopgate Lane, but things really go wrong here. The footpath to Grayson's Farm is supposed to here, but there's a locked gate, no signs and no trace of any used path across the ploughed out fields. And where the footpath between Grayson's Farm and High Barn Farm are supposed to merge, it is blocked.
The path beyond Voces Farm is overgrown or flooded (the landowner admitted nature won!), and past the horse paddocks, the only way ahead is to climb a leaning, buttresed fence. Past the sewage works (over an overgrown footbridge), the exit to the road appears to be an electric fence, so had to use the service road for the sewage works.
The rest is glorious, though, and I've kept that in the replacement.
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