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Walking the King Charles III England Coast Path: North West - Lancashire & Merseyside Map Booklet

1:25,000 OS Route Map Booklet

Pre-order - Publishing 15 September 2025

This book is available to pre-order. Payment will be taken upfront and your book will be dispatched from our warehouse as soon as it becomes available around the 15 September 2025.

Map of the southern section of the 590km (367 mile) England Coast Path: North West National Trail. Covers the trail between Arnside and the Welsh border along the Lancashire and Merseyside coastline. This compact booklet of OS 1:25,000 maps shows the route, providing all of the mapping you need to walk the trail in either direction.

Seasons

Best walked in spring and summer for the longest days, best public transport and to avoid the worst weather and tides, but walkable year round with adequate planning.

Centres

Arnside, Silverdale, Carnforth, Morecambe, Heysham, Lancaster, Fleetwood, Blackpool, Lytham, Preston, Southport, Liverpool, Wirral, Shotton and Chester.

Difficulty

The majority of the stages can be easily split, extended or adapted. Most are relatively easy walking depending on terrain and distance.

Must See

Circuiting Lancashire, Merseyside, Wirral and a slice of Cheshire, highlights include Morecambe Bay and Lancaster, the longest dune system in England at Sefton, Merseyside’s arts and musical culture, Wirral’s heritage and Cheshire’s coastal reedbeds.
ISBN
9781786310415
Availability
Not Yet Published
Available
15 Sept 2025
Edition
First
Pages
80
Size
17.20 x 11.60 x .55cm
Weight
0g

Delivery & Returns

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Overview

This map booklet to the Lancashire and Merseyside section of the England Coast Path contains detailed mapping for walking the route in either direction. With easy access at many points along the way, the Lancashire/Merseyside section can be enjoyed as a trek of around 12 days or in shorter sections.

  • Full route shown on 1:25,000 OS maps
  • Map booklet can be used to walk the path in either direction
  • Covers the England Coast Path from Arnside to Chester
  • Conveniently sized for slipping into a jacket pocket or top of a rucksack
  • An accompanying Cicerone guidebook - Walking the England Coast Path: North West - is available separately

Updates
Ange Harker Cicerone author AHARKER

By Ange Harker

Ange Harker is a farm-raised outdoor writer from Nidderdale, with work published in Trail, Country Walking and Lakeland Walker; and an alumni of the Rural Writing Institute and Kendal Mountain Literature Festival's Open Mountain programme. She's also a qualified walking guide having led across England and Wales, including many rounds of the Yorkshire Three Peaks. For the last decade Ange has been a member of Natural England's Coastal Access Delivery Team in the north west; collectively devising, planning and proposing the eventual route all the way from the Scottish border at Gretna to the Welsh border on the Dee Marshes, and with a special interest in accessibility.

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