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The Wyre Way is a series of hiking paths, largely within the Borough of Wyre, Lancashire, England. It is part of the 137-mile (220 km) Lancashire Coastal Way, established in 1991. [1] It contains three routes, the most easterly of which ends near the source of the River Wyre in the Forest of Bowland. [2]
The forest covers an area in local terms of 2,634 hectares (6,509 acres, 26.34 square kilometres (10.17 sq mi)) and is noted for its variety of wildlife.Although now the Wyre Forest has been much deforested, it still extends from east of the A442 at Shatterford, north of Kidderminster in the east, almost to Cleobury Mortimer in the west and from Upper Arley in the north to Areley Kings, near ...
The route crosses many different trails along its length, including: The North Cheshire Way (Chester Spur) at Chester railway station; The Baker Way at Chester railway station; The Sandstone Trail at Tushingham (going past Old St. Chad's Chapel) The Maelor Way and South Cheshire Way at Grindley Brook; The Shropshire Way at various points in ...
Exceptions to this can be converted railways, canal towpaths and some popular fell walking routes where stone-pitching and slabs have been laid to prevent erosion. [5] Many long-distance footpaths are arranged around a particular theme such as one specific range of hills or a historical or geographical connection.
It runs north–south between Hartington in the Derbyshire Peak District and Great Barrington. It passes from Derbyshire where it leaves the Pennine Bridleway (and bridleway networks that run north to Cumbria) through Staffordshire heading south through Weston Park and the Wyre Forest in Worcestershire to enter Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and ...
Wyre Estuary Country Park is located in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, England. Established in 1991 [1] and covering 0.79 acres (0.32 ha), [2] it is situated on the western banks of the 28-mile (45 km) long River Wyre, near its mouth at the Irish Sea at Fleetwood. The Wyre estuary forms part of the southern boundary of Morecambe Bay.
In 1902, ornithologist and naturalist Jannion Steele Elliott purchased the Elizabethan era building Dowles Manor, near the confluence of Dowles Brook into the Severn. [2] By the time of his death, in 1942, he had bought up the surrounding land, piecemeal, until he owned the portion of the valley, formed by the Dowles Brook, surrounding Dowles Manor; he maintained this land as a nature reserve.
The forest has been under the management of the Commission since it was planted in the 1920s. [42] [43] Mortimer Forest: Shropshire: 1029 Mortimer Forest originally provided firewood for Ludlow Castle. It now contains several biking trails and walking routes as well as a permanent orienteering course. [44] [45] New Forest: Hampshire: 37677