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City of Liverpool

Dock Link

Stanley Dock Branch

Liverpool
0-3 miles

Bootle to Melling
3-12 miles

Maghull to Burscough
12- 24 miles

Rufford Branch

Burscough
to Wigan
24 - 34 miles

Wigan
34 - 37 miles

Leigh Branch

Former Lancaster
Canal South
37-47miles

Johnson's Hillock
to Cherry Tree
47 - 54 miles

Blackburn
54-59 miles




 

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127.25 miles

Miles to Liverpool

Places

Towpath Condition
Maps

Description

0 - 1

Liverpool City Centre
Old Hall Street
Pall Mall Terminus
Eldonian Village
Stanley Dock Branch

Roads


Very Good

The former canal basins are in Liverpool city centre. The canal now starts in Eldonian Village, a modern housing estate.

1 - 2

Sandhills
Bank Hall

Very Good

The canal passes old warehouses and former industry.

2 - 3

Bootle

Very Good

A quiet stretch of canal, a mixture of residential and former industry.

3 - 4

Bootle
Litherland

smooth tarmac

Leaving Bootle Strand the canal passes behind industrial units and wasteland.

4 - 5

Litherland

new tarmac

The canal passes rows of houses and a new tescos supermarket. Anti-vehicle gates on towpath

5 - 6

Rimrose Valley Country Park

compact gravel

The canal runs alongside the country park with new housing on the far bank.

6 - 7

Gorsey Lane

grass and gravel

a mixture of new housing and old council estates.

7 - 8

Netherton

gravel and grass

The council estates intrude onto the canal at bridges. Anti-vehicle gates on towpath

8 - 9

Old Roan

grass with ruts

Housing estates back on to the canal. Anti-vehicle gates on towpath

9 - 10

Aintree Race Course

grass with rut

The backgardens of houses back on to the towpath while Aintree Race Course is on the far side. Anti-vehicle gates on towpath

10 - 11

M57

tarmac

The canal is on an embankment above scrub and wasteland. It passes under the M57

11 - 12

Melling
M58

tarmac

The canal passes the fields below Melling

12 - 13

Maghull

 

The canal enters Maghull with houses, the backs of shops and playing fields bordering the canal. Drapers Bridge 11B gives access to Maghull Station. Anti-vehicle gates on towpath

13 - 14

Red Lion Bridge

 

The backgardens of Maghull run down to the canals edge, after the Running Horses pub there are fields to the west.

14 - 15

Lydiate

 

The boats of the MMBC are moored along here, with a high hedge and trees lining the towpath.

15 - 16

 

 

The fields grow a variety of produce, cabbages, corn, sunflowers and lavender. The towpath is grassy and the hedgerow can be overgrown.

16 - 17

Downholland

 

Grassy towpath surrounded by fields

17 - 18

Haskayne

 

While the canal is never far from the main road this stretch is quiet and agricultural.

18 - 19

Halsall

 

Carpark by Halsall Warehouse bridge #25 near the Saracens Head pub.

19 - 20

 

 

Small car parks at the former wharves at bridges #26 and #27.

20 - 21

Scarisbrick

 

The woods of Scarisbrick Hall line one side and the boats of the MMBC the other and a large caravan park.

21 - 22

Heatons Bridge

 

 

22 - 23

Martin Lane

 

 

23 - 24

New Lane Bridge

 

 

24 - 25

Burscough Bridge

 

Burscough Bridge Station, on road parking

25 - 26

 

 

 

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27 - 28

Parbold

 

 

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35 - 36

Bottom Lock Wigan

 

 

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48 - 49

Top Lock Johnsons Hillock

 

Limited on road parking by the Top Lock pub.

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57

Eanam Wharf

 

Blackburn Station is within walking distance of Eanam Wharf. There is a large car park for rail users at the station.

58

 

 

 

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63

 

 

 

Half Way

 

 

 

64

 

 

 

65

 

 

 

66

 

 

 

67

 

 

 

68

 

 

 

69

Hapton Bridge

 

 

70

 

 

 

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Brierfield Wharf

 

 

78

 

 

 

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Barrowford Wharf

 

 

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Bottom Lock Banknewton

 

 

93

 

 

 

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Bottom Lock Gargrave

 

 

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Kildwick Wharf

 

 

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Bingley Five Rise

 

 

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117

Field Three Rise

 

 

118-119

 

 

 

119-120

 

 

 

120-121

 

 

 

121-122

Rodley Wharf

 

 

122-123

 

 

 

123-124

 

 

 

124-125

 

 

 

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126 -127

 

 

 

127-end

Leeds River Lock

 

Leeds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City of Leeds

Leeds
127.25 miles

Shipley to Leeds
115 -125 miles

Stockbridge to Shipley
109 -115 miles

Skipton to Stockbridge
99 - 109 miles

Gargrave to Skipton
93 -99 miles

Greenberfield to Gargrave
87 - 93 miles

Foulridge to Greenberfield
82-87 miles

Burnley Lane to Foulridge Tunnel
75 -82 miles

Burnley
71-75 miles

Rishton, Church and Hapton
59 - 71 miles






 
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