A few people have been commenting on Facebook about seeing some of the 1,000 Millennium Mileposts that were put up along cycle paths across the UK to celebrate the Year 2000. So I thought it would be nice to visit the sites of all 20 mileposts on the Wirral Peninsula as part of a single ride: hence this route from Hamilton Square Railway Station to Chester Railway Station via the 17 remaining mileposts (plus the sites of the missing three at New Brighton, Bidston Moss and Woodchurch).
John Hampson
List of Mileposts and their locations:
1 MP 435 Outside Seacombe Ferry Terminal
2 MP 434 Marine Point, New Brighton (Missing?)
3 MP 433 At the end of Green Lane by the promenade
4 MP 529 On the Birket path, just west of Reeds Lane
5 MP 821 As the cycle path joins Bidston Golf Course’s road (Missing?)
6 MP 432 On Fender Way opposite Beeechwood Drive
7 MP 807 On Fender Way behind the Vet’s Surgery
8 MP 530 On the cycle path just south of Upton Road
9 MP 531 By the playground off New Hey Road (Missing?)
10 MP 431 Junction of Landican Lane and Woodchurch Road
11 MP 430 On Landican Lane opposite Little Storeton Lane
12 MP 429 On Thornton Hough Green, opposite Smithy Hill
13 MP 235 On Hadlow Road opposite the station
14 MP 599 Chester Greenway by entrance from Parkway
15 MP 598 Chester Greenway by Green Lane East
16 MP 597 Chester Greenway by Sea Hill Road
17 MP 596 Chester Greenway on England / Wales border
18 MP 383 Chester Greenway between the canal and Deva Way
19 MP 1105 At the end of Flag Lane North as it goes through the Zoo
20 MP 381 Chester Greenway at SW corner of Lime Wood Fields
The ride is grade C, just over 40 miles long and starts from outside Hamilton Square Railway Station. With twenty stops for mileposts and one for lunch the ride will take around six hours.
The route is on Komoot Wirral Millennium Mileposts and will go via Seacombe Ferry, Egremont and New Brighton, around Leasowe, across the golf course to Bidston Village, then through Upton (with a quick break for a snack), via Woodchurch and Landican Lane to Storeton, Thornton Hough, Raby and Willaston, before stopping at Burton Manor for lunch. After lunch the ride goes across Burton Marsh to the Deeside Industrial Estate and along the Chester Greenway, then up to Chester Zoo and back to Lime Wood Fields before finishing at Chester Railway Station, where people can get a train back to the Wirral. No significant hills, but there may be some sand on the foreshore at New Brighton and some mud on some of the cycle tracks.
Check out the following site for some interesting stuff about the mileposts: The Sustrans Millennium Mileposts
40 miles, Grade C
Created by John Hampson