Best walks to Lea Green

St Helens Central Station to Lea Green Station

A short town-to-town route: leaves the centre on a tarmac canal towpath, climbs onto higher ground, crosses a retail park and then takes a tarmac track and an earth-and-stone path that can be wet and muddy through Sherdley Park before broad park paths lead to the station.

Easy: 4km, moderate ascents.

Foot-only route due to the footpath into Sherdley Park; a road near Grove's Dam is prone to flooding though passable on foot.

Lunch: Plenty of shops and places for refreshment in the retail park mid-route.

Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route

Prescot Station to Lea Green Station

A mostly uninteresting road walk with one short footpath section. Almost entirely accessible and with the odd stretch lacking ramps or low pavements.

Easy: 5km, gentle ascents.

Documented by Slow Ways — download GPX route