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			The former canal basins are in Liverpool city centre at Pall Mall and Old Hall Street. The canal now starts in Eldonian Village, a modern housing estate a short ride from the city centre.
1 - 2	Sandhills Bank Hall			The canal passes old warehouses and former industry.
2 - 3	Bootle			A quiet stretch of canal, a mixture of residential and former industry. Bridge 1 has quite steep cobbled slopes.
3 - 4	Bootle Litherland			Leaving Bootle Strand the canal passes behind industrial units and wasteland. Take care on bridge 2A as you cross the canal.
4 - 5	Litherland			The canal passes rows of houses and a new tescos supermarket. Anti-vehicle gates on towpath
5 - 6	Rimrose Valley Country Park			The canal runs alongside the country park with new housing on the far bank.
6 - 7	Gorsey Lane			A mixture of new housing and old council estates.
7 - 8	Netherton			The council estates intrude onto the canal at bridges. Anti-vehicle gates on towpath, you may have to dismount.
8 - 9	Old Roan			Housing estates back on to the canal. Anti-vehicle gates on towpath
9 - 10	Aintree Race Course			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			The canal is on an embankment above scrub and wasteland. It passes under the M57
11 - 12	Melling M58			The canal passes the fields below Melling
12 - 13	Maghull	Worn Tarmac Cobbles		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	Worn Tarmac Compact Mud		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	Scarisbrick			Small car parks at the former wharves at bridges #26 and #27.
20 - 21	Scarisbrick Marina			The woods of Scarisbrick Hall line one side and the boats of the MMBC and a large caravan park the other. Take care on the towpath west of Heatons Bridge a short section is collapsed.
21 - 22	Heatons Bridge			I would recommend considering using the roads instead of the towpath on this stretch
22 - 23	Martin Lane			I would recommend using the roads instead of the towpath on this stretch.
23 - 24	New Lane Bridge			Towpath improves towards Burscough. There is a gate on the towpath West of Burscough, main gate may be open. From the Farmers Arms pub to Burscough Bridge the towpath has been improved.
24 - 25	Burscough Bridge			Burscough Bridge Station, on road parking. Rufford Branch of the canal, not officially open to cyclists and not good for riding.
25 - 26	Lathom			Some good sections of gravel, some grass with compacted mud.
26 - 27				Mostly good, grass with thin tracks of compacted mud.
27 - 28	Parbold			Parbold Station is close to Parbold Bridge, small popular car park by Parbold Bridge, some on road parking. Pubs and shops in Parbold.
28 - 29				Good towpath but can be muddy and slippy when wet.
29 - 30	Appley Bridge			Between Appley Locks and Appley Bridge the towpath is being improved. There is a anti-motorbike gate on the Wigan side of Appley Bridge.
30 - 31				The canal has the railway on one side and the former Douglas Navigation on the other as it passes through fields.
31 - 32	Dean Locks Gathurst			Take care on the slippy cobbles by the lock house next to the M6.
32 - 33	Crooke			The towpath is patchy, mostly a narrow path of compact ground with grass either side.
33 - 34	Wigan Athletic FC			At Ell Meadow Lock the cycle path starts. This is a smooth brick surface all the way to Wigan.
34 - 35	Wigan Pier Wigan Stations			The canal enters Wigan and the famous Wigan Pier. Take care passing under Pottery Bridge#51
35 - 36	Bottom Lock Wigan Leigh Branch			Good paved towpath.
36 - 37	Top Lock Wigan			Canal and towpath head up the flight of 21 locks.
37 - 38
38 - 39
39 - 40
40 - 41
41 -42
42 - 43
43 - 44
44 - 45
45 - 46
46 - 47	Botany Bay
47 - 48
48 - 49	Top Lock Johnsons Hillock			Limited on road parking by the Top Lock pub.
49 - 50
50 - 51
51 - 52
52 - 53
53 - 54
54 - 55
55 - 56
56 - 57
57 - 58	Eanam Wharf			Blackburn Station is within walking distance of Eanam Wharf. There is a large car park for rail users at the station.
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61-62
62-63
63-64
Half Way
64-65
65-66
66-67
67-68
68-69
69-70	Hapton Bridge
70-71
71-72
72-73
73-74	Burnley Embankment			Large Tescos at the end of the Embankment. Bust station and car park at bottom of Embankment.
74-75
75-76
76-77
77-78	Brierfield Wharf
78-79
79-80
80-81	Barrowford Wharf
81-82
82-83
83-84
84-85
85-86
86-87
87-88
88-89
89-90
90-91
91-92
92-93	Bottom Lock Banknewton
93-94
94-95	Bottom Lock Gargrave
95-96
96-97
97-98
98-99
99-100
100-101
101-102
102-103
103-104	Kildwick Wharf
104-105
105-106
106-107
107-108
108-109		Good quality gravel / compressed mud
109-110		Good quality gravel / compressed mud
110-111		Good quality gravel / compressed mud
111-112	Bingley Five Rise	Good quality gravel / compressed mud
112-113		Tarmac through Bingley
113 -114		Good quality gravel / compressed mud
114-115		Quality deteroriates through shipley to rough gravel / some rocks.		Cycle style on the boundary between Saltaire and Shipley.
115-116				The towpath becomes muddy and narrow after Shipley but this can be avoided by using the road running parallel.
116-117		Compressed mud, can be messy after rain.
117-118	Field Three Rise	Medium quality gravel / compressed mud
118-119		Good quality gravel / compressed mud
119-120		Very rough rocky ground, ruts on both sides.
120-121		Rough rocky gravel and compressed mud in places.
121-122	Rodley Wharf	Good quality gravel / compressed mud		Several cycle styles in quick succession.
122-123		Good quality gravel / compressed mud
123-124		Good quality gravel / compressed mud
124-125		medium to poor quality gravel / compressed mud - alternative cycle path.		The sections running through Armley have become somewhat damaged and in 2010/11 have been replaced with a tarmacced cycle path which runs parallel to the canal towpath in some sections then rejoins the towpath in others.
125-126		Good quality gravel / compressed mud
126 -127				Patchy surface running in to leeds now with good quality towpath in most parts but with very badly damaged slopes with large rocks and ruts, quite technical.
127-end	Leeds River Lock			Leeds easy access to the city centre and railway station.