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#everysinglestreet [28/09/20] Off to the races: Liverpool’s most northerly point

Graham Holland    

Stats

  • Monday 29th September 2020
  • 55 streets – Albany Road, Melling Road (Liverpool section), Allendale Avenue, Ancient Meadows, Anglo Close, Ashcroft Road, Bakewell Grove, Brackendale Avenue, Cambridge Road, Chaser Close, Church Avenue, Coerton Road, Coniston Close, Cornett Road, Dante Close, Dewey Avenue, Ealing Road, Eastbourne Road, Eremon Close, Foxhunter Drive, Freeport Grove, Furlong Close, Goodacre Road, Greenwich Court, Greenwich Road, Harradon Road, Inglis Road, Kilmore Close, Kingswood Avenue, Late Moffatt Road West, Lunesdale Avenue, Lyncot Road, Melling Avenue, Millersdale Avenue, Moffat Road, Old Church Close, Oxford Road, Park Lane, Poulter Road, Redland Road, Ribblesdale Avenue, Roosevelt Drive, Rowsley Grove, Rugby Road, Seagram Close, Seeds Lane, Sprig Close, Steeplechase Close, Sunloch Close, Vanderbilt Avenue, Wyresdale Road. Damsire Close not on OpenStreetMap
  • Total: 1,292 (22.9%)
  • Remaining: 4,349

Notes

Having done Liverpool’s most southerly point last month I thought I’d venture to the most northerly point.

Most people across the UK think Aintree Racecourse – home of the Grand National – is in Liverpool, whereas it’s just over the border in the borough of Sefton. The gate was open so I popped into the racecourse grounds for some photos, just by Melling Road. This is the road that runs right through the middle of the course. When there are races on they close the road, remove the fences, and cover the tarmac so the horses can run over it.

Not surprisingly there are quite a few horse racing themed roads in the area, with Seagram Close, Steeplechase Close, Foxhunter Drive, Chaser Close, and Furlong Close.

I crossed under the Liverpool Loop Line, an abandoned railway line that’s been converted into a path. If I’d wanted to I could have jumped on here and run all the way to Halewood. This is the line that passes at the bottom of my parents’ road in Gateacre, mentioned when I ran there last.

It’s officially autumn because I saw my first conker from a suitably brown horse chestnut tree.

Along Warbreck Moor there are sets of semi-detached houses, each one with its own name – Britannia Villas, Windsor Villas, Oxford Villas, Cambridge Villas, etc. On one of the side streets here there is a garage where the owner keeps chickens on the roof.

OpenStreetMap shows where old stations used to be on disused railway lines. Just off Warbreck Moor was Racecourse Station. You can see the bricked up entrance from the main road. I was delighted to see the old station entrance still exists at the end of Ribblesdale Avenue. How many of the locals know it’s there?

Ancient Meadows was a huge disappointment – no meadows of any sort, ancient or otherwise.

One of the gatehouses at the entrance to the cemetery has been converted to apartments. I’m not sure I’d like to live on the grounds of a cemetery. It has good sized bedrooms and a private garden though. https://www.yopa.co.uk/properties/details/201754

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