Liverpool Circular

Sun 13th Apr 2025

Walk Details:

Event Type
Group Walk
Region / Area
Northern England / Merseyside
Local Group
Merseystride
Distance
14ml.
Start Time
10:00
Route
From Pier Head - meet Sir Alfred Lewis Monument, Liver Buildings, Canada Boulevard

A circular walk around the southern part of Liverpool

Highlights:-
The Sir Alfred Lewis monument, a ship owner & founder of the Liverpool School of Medicine.
Liverpool Waters with its Cruise & IOM terminals, restaurants, bars & cafes.
Known throughout the world & a welcome sight to sailors, the iconic Three Graces, Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building & Port of Liverpool Building.
The hustle & bustle of the Royal Albert Dock with its boutique shops pubs & cafes. It is also home of the Tate Gallery, The Beatles Story, Merseyside Maritime Museum, the International Slave trade Museum & the end or beginning of the Leeds Liverpool Canal.
The M&S Bank Arena & Exhibition Centre.
Views across the River Mersey of Birkenhead & the Cammell Laird ship yard.
Dockers Steps, built to allow Dockers access to Herculaneum Dock, a terminus for the North Atlantic Convoys of WWII.
Elswick Street where the iconic 80’s sitcom ‘Bread’ was filmed.
Liverpool Festival Gardens, a former household tip transformed in the UK’s first ever festival gardens in 1984. Festival Japanese & Chinese Gardens is all that remains.
The famous Lark Lane, a vibrant area full of eateries.
Probably the best known park in Liverpool, Sefton Park covers 200 acres & boast a lake & a Victorian Palm House restored to its previous glory after years of decay following the blitz of WWII
The grade II Princess Park with its fishing lake & the gravestone of a donkey called Judy who gave rides to children for 21 years.
The childhood home of Ringo Star & the murals
St James Mount & Gardens, once a quarry before becoming a cemetery & sits below the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, the fifth largest cathedral in the world which took 74 years to complete. .
The largest outdoor shopping centre, Liverpool One, opened its doors in 2008 at a cost of £920 million

General Notes
This is a joint walk with West Lancashire LDWA and East Lancashire LDWA groups
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