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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Rainford and St Helens.
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This is a Slow Ways route connecting Rainford and St Helens.
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Geography information system (GIS) data
Total length
Maximum elevation
Minimum elevation
Start and end points
Rainford
Grid Ref
SD4779900848
Lat / Lon
53.50174° / -2.78844°
Easting / Northing
347,799E / 400,848N
What3Words
jazz.knots.beam
St Helens
Grid Ref
SJ5158295352
Lat / Lon
53.45270° / -2.73057°
Easting / Northing
351,582E / 395,352N
What3Words
spines.shocking.amplifier
Raisth One's land is
| Rainford | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SD4779900848 |
| Lat / Lon | 53.50174° / -2.78844° |
| Easting / Northing | 347,799E / 400,848N |
| What3Words | jazz.knots.beam |
| St Helens | |
|---|---|
| Grid Ref | SJ5158295352 |
| Lat / Lon | 53.45270° / -2.73057° |
| Easting / Northing | 351,582E / 395,352N |
| What3Words | spines.shocking.amplifier |
| Arable | 30.3% |
| Urban | 69.7% |
Data: Corine Land Cover (CLC) 2018
review
Hiking Historian
12 Nov 2023A good straight forward, and mostly rural, route between Rainford and St Helens. It is a foot-only one, however, as there are two footpath sections across either rough terrain or narrow paths.
Starting in Rainford, with its bus stops, shops and pubs, we make our way along paved roads, until the industrial estate on the edge of the village. Here we join a farm track which eventually narrows into a footpath; both can be wet or muddy in places. The footpath runs along the edge of the industrial estate, and is mostly wooded.
It ends at a road, which is paved, leading us to our next turn onto another track. It can be very wet at times; at time of review, the start of the track had an inch or two of flood water, but soon rises onto higher ground. The track becomes metalled as we walk between the two halves of a golf course.
It becomes an unpaved road towards the end, but unused by traffic, and at its end we join a paved road, where we quickly join another footpath after a short section of unpaved drive. The footpath goes diagonally uphill across a farm field, then a bridge over the East Lancs Road.
We're now on the outskirts of St Helens. A track running alongside the cemetery at Windle (a quick diversion to the ruined medieval chapel if you like that kind of thing!), and then we're onto the streets of St Helens, all paved.
Skirting Victoria Park, then eventually onto North Road, downhill until the roundabout at the bottom, where we take Corporation Street past the town hall, bus station before arriving at yhe train station.
A good walk, with a nice rural middle.
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