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. The canal now starts in Eldonian Village, a modern housing estate.
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.
3 - 4	Bootle Litherland			Leaving Bootle Strand the canal passes behind industrial units and wasteland.
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
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			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 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
22 - 23	Martin Lane
23 - 24	New Lane Bridge
24 - 25	Burscough Bridge			Burscough Bridge Station, on road parking
25 - 26
26 - 27
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.
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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.
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Half Way
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69	Hapton Bridge
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77	Brierfield Wharf
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80	Barrowford Wharf
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92	Bottom Lock Banknewton
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94	Bottom Lock Gargrave
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103	Kildwick Wharf
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111	Bingley Five Rise
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117	Field Three Rise
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121-122	Rodley Wharf
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126 -127
127-end	Leeds River Lock			Leeds