Walk Leader: Steve Martin

Number of walkers: 13

Distance: 10.5 miles

Weather: Blue skies with no cloud.

Thirteen adults, including one guest, and a baby set off from McDonalds at Aintree retail park on what must have been the best day of the year so far.  Glorious blue skies with very little cloud with a slight northerly wind in places.

The 10.5 mile walk followed the Trans-Pennine Trail from Aintree around the back of the world famous Aintree racecourse, along the disused railway where once train carriages lined up with race goers and onto the Leeds Liverpool canal through to Maghull.  We stopped for lunch in a play park warming ourselves in the spring sunshine.  From here we headed through Maghull and onto the old Cheshire Lines continuing onto the Old Racecourse Road where it is believed the very first Grand National Took place. We then continued over Sefton meadows and the Mersey Forest, through Netherton back onto the Leeds Liverpool canal returning to the start.