Walks you can reach from Prescot by train
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Alternatively, view walks directly from Prescot.
Liverpool Circular via Liverpool Cathedral (Lancashire)
15 minutes direct from Prescot.
St Helens to Newton-le-Willows (Lancashire)
9 minutes direct from Prescot.
A superb, mostly off-road walk along the historic St Helens/Sankey Canal towpath (tarmac or metalled earth) through peaceful countryside and with the canal a string of pools and reedbeds. Largely accessible to wheels and cycles with some width restrictions and sometimes stony or muddy surfaces; one steep tarmac climb and a stepped footbridge at Earlestown. Follows the St Helens/Sankey Canal, passing the Sankey Viaduct (George Stephenson's monument, the first major railway bridge in the world), old locks, and the 'Mucky Mountains' spoil heaps of the former vitriol works, now reclaimed by nature. Stations at both ends with working lifts.
Waterway: three fifths along the Sankey Canal.
Time: 4h (2h30 walking, 1h30 lunch)
Lunch: Shops, pubs and eateries at both ends.
Warnings: Crossing the railway at Earlestown uses a stepped footbridge, making the route foot-only.
Walk details: Slow Ways.