It starts and finishes in the car park behind Costa in Maghull.
The linear walk, we caught the bus back, included the target pub, the Nags Head in Thornton. 
You can see how it rated in my Maghull Foodie Blog at...
The initial part of the Wednesday walk followed the same route as our last W&WPL...
Setting off from the car park we headed along Westway towards the A5147 (Liverpool Road North). Crossing Westway we cut through the small coppice and down to the Zebra crossing.
Turning right, once we'd crossed, we then turned left across the Leeds, Liverpool Canal and then right along the tow-path.
At Green Lane Swing Bridge, we turned left along Green Lane, until we got to a sharp left hand bend. Here we turn right along a signposted track (just before a farm)
This brings you to the Cheshire Lines where it crosses Maghull Brook.
Turning right, onto the Cheshire lines, we continued along until we reached another path off to the left.
This path took us past a pylon and a pond on our right with snowdrops...
...telling us Spring is on the way, and across fields towards the River Alt.
Climbing the steps we crossed the River Alt and continued straight ahead.
Now our route changed as we continued straight ahead following the clearly marked (Yellow Arrows on posts) path with woodland on our right...
... we followed another sign, just after crossing a small wooden bridge...
...into the woods, the path emerging, eventually onto Moss Lane where we turned left and continued to a crossroads with Lunt Road.
Crossing Lunt Road we continued along Back Lane until we reach a partial barrier across the road...
We crossed the barrier and continued along Back Lane, with reeds and teasels on both sides of the road...,
,,,until we reached the roadworks for the New Bypass.
Here we had no option but to turn right and to walk parallel to the Roadworks barriers until we reached a pedestrian crossing that took us into Holgate.
At the Junction with Green Lane we reached the destination for our Wednesday Pub Lunch...
...the Nags Head (on the left).
We went in for our WPL ensuring we had time to walk to the bus stop to catch the bus back to Maghull Square.
At the time of writing this blog, the buses leave at 11 min past the hour.
The Bus stop...
...was reached by turning right along Green Lane to the traffic lights where we crossed the A5665 and turned right; the bus stop being just a few yards along the road.
It was nice that we didn't have to walk back as the bitterly cold wind hadn't eased at all. The bus...
...was warm and before long we were back at the square with a short walk back to the start.
An enjoyable W&WPL which we may redo when we visit The Grapes, also on Green Lane. Watch this space.
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