Rising prominently from the Lancashire Plain, Billinge Hill is well known, but far less visited beyond lies the Promised Land where an ancient farm is at the point of collapse and below lies a wood where birds throng among the trees and, in spring, primroses form a golden carpet.
LOCATION: North of St Helens
START: Billinge. Beacon Road, off A571 opposite St Aiden's Church. Park at road end
Grid ref: SD528010 Postcode: WN5 7HF
DISTANCE: 5 (or 3.5) miles
GRADE: Easy
TIME: 2.5 hours
MAP: Explorer - Southport & Chorley Landranger 108
NOTE: Masts on Billinge Hill
REFRESHMENTS: Fir Tree Farm www.firtreeshopandcafe.co.uk open daily
EN ROUTE: Billinge Lump
This walk was originally published by
The Manchester Evening News