Here we cross to the unpaved road opposite, which we follow around, and then turn down a drive towards Ivy House Farm. The road is unpaved, so care is necessary, but once we're around the bend, it becomes paved as the housing reappears. Once we're past the station, we turn down an unpaved drive which becomes a footpath at the car park for the allotments....

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The tarmac footpath runs between fences and has gates at both ends, but there's no indication that they're ever closed. At the end of the footpath, a rough unpaved farm track-cum-road passing the scattered farms and woods. At the end, ignore the marked footpath ahead; it's in an overgrown field boundary. No steps, and it takes us straight across onto a tarmac footpath running through a tunnel of trees around an industrial estate....

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Onto an unpaved, though dead-end, road, at the end we take a path around the last farm, before heading across a field to the trees in the centre; it can be hard to spot at first, especially before harvest, but it seems to be well-used once on it. The route map, and OS, suggest the footpath goes through the farm, but on the ground it was been rerouted around, between fences and hedges, and ahead of the tree-lined farm track to the road. Through fields of various crops (oats, wheat, carrots, parsnips), through a gate by a farm, and a long rough farm track to the road....

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Not attempted this yet, but as I've tried SkeBil, which uses a similar route, I know the footpath from Moss Farm to the motorway is non-existent, and to the subway and beyond to the road is so overgrown with brambles and nettles to render it practically impassable. I'll try to find another route and share in the near future....

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The road at the end is paved, but we soon join a footpath that runs between a golf course....

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Running alongside sportsfields and then the edge of a farm field, we soon meet the A570, where we cross (there is no crossing, so care is needed). Ahead, a series of farm tracks (muddy in places) past Mossborough Hall until we meet the Coach Road, which is wooded and mostly tarmac....

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A good route, with a mixture of towpaths, footpaths and paved roads. At the end, we cross the road to join another footpath. A few more roads, before we join a tarmac footpath across Tower Hill Park....

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The access from Flint Lane and Prescot Road has been blocked by new houses (it was never an official footpath here)....

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Here we join a farm track which eventually narrows into a footpath; both can be wet or muddy in places. 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....

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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. 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!...

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The footpath under the road bridge no longer exists, but there's a new footpath that runs close to the original course. 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....

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