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come get lost with me in my exploits over the hills and mountains of the North West of England

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West Pennines Wanderer

West Pennines Wanderer

come get lost with me in my exploits over the hills and mountains of the North West of England

  • My Walking
    • Yearly Walks Summaries
      • Walks in 2015
      • Walks in 2016
      • Walks in 2017
      • Walks in 2018
      • Walks in 2019
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    • Walking home from Work
    • West Pennines Classics
      • Roaming Around Rivington
      • Two Brooks, Two Chimneys and Cheetham Close
    • This Weekend’s Walk
    • The West Pennines
    • My Wainwrights so far…
    • My Routes
      • The Anglezarke Amble (Full 24-Miles version)
        • My 2016 Anglezarke Amble
      • The Best of Pendle
        • The Best of Pendle
      • The Three Peaks of Yorkshire
        • My 2015 Yorkshire Three Peaks walk
  • Root page
  • Home
  • About
    • Southport
      • The Moss
    • Advertising with me
    • Who I follow
      • Who I follow
        • Desert Plants Of Avalon
        • More Hannah {Witton}
        • Harli G
        • Plant One On Me
        • Where’s Mollie
        • Xiaonan Sun / ThePortraitArt
    • Disclaimer
    • Why the “Fat Goat”?
    • Links Direction
    • Site Map
  • Get Walking
    • Challenge Walks
    • Day-long walks
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Category: Southport

Piecing together the monster route

By Mark Wild On 15 April 2024

And what a lame header that is! After the walk last month which served as an introduction to the rural / agricultural road which is New Lane, I decided to start putting together the components …

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Southport, This Weekend's Walk, Walk 1000 Miles in 2024, Walking

The After-the-storm walk of Thursday, 28th December, 2023

By Mark Wild On 2 January 2024

With Christmas being pretty much a social write-off thanks to our head of department (once again) bringing in a variation of influenza – which obviously I caught, it was imperative that I got out of …

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Southport, Walking

The torrential target terminator!

By Mark Wild On 14 December 2023
Logo for Country Walking Magazine's Walk 1000 Miles

Forgive the (failed attempt at) alliteration, this is just a short post to brag about completing my walk1000-miles challenge. The walk on which this happened took place on a Sunday morning – I imagine this …

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Southport, Walking

A meander through Marshside

By Mark Wild On 14 December 2023

I had a day off work and thus thought that the best thing for mind, body and soul would be to go for a walk, a local walk. Rain was forecast but I have postponed …

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Southport, Walking

Work to Home via Asmall Lane, New Cut Lane and Shirdley Hill

By Mark Wild On 27 November 2023

I had been plotting to do this one for ages and with the blessing of a dry day I simply had to take the chance to do what turned out to be an epic walk. …

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Southport, The Moss, Walking, Walks home from work

A gentle stroll around Birkdale via London Road

By Mark Wild On 21 November 2023

The local walk of Saturday, November 18th. My Meralgia paresthetica has returned with a vengeance, this means that Friday night I had practically no sleep (and the same for Saturday) so I ended up going …

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Southport, The Moss, This Weekend's Walk, Walking

The Anemone walk

By Mark Wild On 26 September 2023

The walk of Sunday the 17th of September, 2023. It had been much too long since my last outing. So much time had past by since getting incinerated at Belmont that I thought it wise …

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Southport, The Moss, Walking

The Christmas walk home 2022 – Scarisbrick through and through on Wednesday 21st December, 2022

By Mark Wild On 4 January 2023

No need for an in-depth analysis of this walk as I have done it a number of times previously but a Christmas walk home from work is something that I look forward to throughout the …

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Southport, Walking

Onwards

By Mark Wild On 26 May 2021

Ignore the date of the heading above, this was originally posted in October, 2020. I’m beginning to tire of WordPress! Especially with its rather irritating knack of randomly adding ” <span style=”font-size: 1.6rem;”>” to my …

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Southport, This Weekend's Walk, Walking

Last walk of 2019

By Mark Wild On 13 January 2020
Photograph of a beautiful sky and horse in a field

Once more to The Moss Christmas day had been and gone and by now I was roast dinner and mince pied out! I needed to get out into the open air and felt the irresistable …

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Southport, The Moss, Walking

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