Hiking routes around St Helens

Trans-Pennine Trail passes through St Helens: 15 sections with 452 km mapped in all, 50 km of them within 15 km. E8 passes through St Helens: 44 sections with 6,337 km mapped in all, 39 km of them within 15 km. Of the routes listed here, the longest is Delamere Way, 34 km long. 2 of the 6 local routes are under 10 km; the rest run longer or leave the area.

• Trans-Pennine TrailRegional · 15 sections50 km within 15 km · 452 km in all · Southport to Hull
• E8International · 44 sections39 km within 15 km · 6,337 km in allERA-FERP-EWV
• Mersey WayLocal31 km within 15 km
• GM RingwayRegional · 20 sections21 km within 15 km · 325 km in all
• Mersey Valley Timberland TrailLocal21 km within 15 km · about 27 km in all
• Allerton Country WalkLocal11 km within 15 km
• Cheshire Ring Canal WalkLocal10 km within 15 km
• Delamere WayRegional4 km within 15 km · 34 km in all
• Rainford Linear ParkLocal3.5 km within 15 km
• New Cut TrailLocal2.4 km within 15 km · about 2.7 km in all

Each name opens the route on Waymarked Trails.

• Routes from Waymarked Trails, which draws the hiking routes mapped on OpenStreetMap (data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); counted on Oct 19, 2026.
• Only routes someone has mapped as a route on OpenStreetMap are counted. Signposted paths no one has mapped, and walks without waymarks, are not.
• Lengths within 15 km are measured on Waymarked Trails’ simplified lines and take in a route’s branches and variants; a path two routes share counts for each. A route’s length in all follows its main line along the mapped ways, and those marked “about” come from the simplified lines.

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