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(C) Liverpool to Chester via Halton Castle

10:30 Wednesday February 25 2026

Current Participants: 13 space(s) available

    This is a grade C ride of 40 miles starting at the Pier Head in Liverpool and travelling to Halton Castle for lunch (with a fabulous view – Drone above Halton Castle) and then on to finish at Chester Railway Station.

    John Hampson, the ride leader, will be at the Pier Head by 10:15, an d will give the briefing at 10:20.  Please don’t be late.

    The route passes the only four Millennium mileposts in Liverpool; there was only one official cycleway in Liverpool in 2000!

    We leave the Pier Head to go along the Strand and past the entrance to the Albert Dock (1st Millennium milepost and start of that first cycleway), then by the side of the bus station onto Hanover Street (2nd Millennium milepost), up Duke Street to the Anglican Cathedral, down Windsor Street to Princes Park (3rd Millennium milepost), through to the Eros Circle in Sefton Park (4th and last Millennium milepost and the end of that first and only cycleway),  Then up NCR 56 to Allerton and Childwall and onto the Liverpool Loop Line, where we stop for a quick snack.  Then down the Liverpool Loop Line to Halewood, through Hale Bank and Ditton, and across the Runcorn Bridge to travel alongside the Bridgewater Canal as far as Phoenix Park and up to Halton Castle for lunch in the beer garden of the Castle Hotel.  The beer garden is the grounds of Halton Castle and has superb views over the Mersey Valley and the Peckforton and Welsh Hills.  There is an are outside (no benches, but a wall where you can eat your own sandwiches and see half of the view.

    The return trip goes back through Town Park and Brookvale to Sutton Weaver, then through Frodsham and up a steep hill (150ft in 1/2 mile) to Helsby, then on up towards Manley and on to Mickle Trafford, finishing along the Greenway to Chester, where you can get a Merseyrail train back to the Wirral; or cycle home under your own power.

    Here is the route on Komoot if you want to download a GPX file for the trip: Liverpool to Chester via Halton Castle