Cycle route
trail following the Sankey Canal from St Helens, Merseyside to Warrington, Cheshire
This page does not score safety or predict current conditions. Confirm legal access, closures, surfaces, traffic, weather and your own capability before riding.
Place and water records are joined to the representative route coordinate. Weather by date, route elevation, events, beaches and live bike-share are shown only after their geographic coverage passes the published readiness gate.
These figures describe a fixed area around one mapped coordinate. They do not measure the full route and they do not become a safety score.
20 final-2024 collision records involving at least one pedal cycle fall within 5 km straight-line of the representative coordinate.
0 fatal-severity, 4 serious-severity and 16 slight-severity collision records.
U is about 1 km straight-line from the route coordinate.
Most held UK route geometries are representative points rather than complete ride lines. The collision radius and nearest traffic counter may cover different roads from the route itself. AADF is an estimated annual daily flow, not live traffic; these figures never produce a safe/unsafe label.
Sources: Department for Transport STATS19 final 2024 collisions and 2025 annual average daily flow records. Projection checked 2026-09-12.
Rail station
0.7 km straight-line from the representative route coordinate.
Inspect map position ↗Bus or coach station
1 km straight-line from the representative route coordinate.
Inspect map position ↗Rail station
1.9 km straight-line from the representative route coordinate.
Inspect map position ↗Rail station
5.6 km straight-line from the representative route coordinate.
Inspect map position ↗Official NaPTAN access-node records. Confirm the operating station, timetable, disruptions, reservations and bicycle carriage with the operator; this is not a journey-plan result.
Ecology survey site
About 1.2 km from the route coordinate. 1 historical survey events; latest 2000-07-25.
Ecology survey site
About 1.3 km from the route coordinate. 1 historical survey events; latest 2000-07-25.
Ecology survey site
About 1.4 km from the route coordinate. 2 historical survey events; latest 2023-05-25.
Ecology survey site
About 1.7 km from the route coordinate. 1 historical survey events; latest 2000-07-18.
Ecology survey site
About 1.8 km from the route coordinate. 2 historical survey events; latest 2026-05-14.
Ecology survey site
About 2 km from the route coordinate. 1 historical survey events; latest 2013-10-09.
Ecology survey site
About 2.3 km from the route coordinate. 1 historical survey events; latest 2000-07-25.
Ecology survey site
About 2.6 km from the route coordinate. 1 historical survey events; latest 2000-07-18.
These records do not identify potable water or guarantee legal access. Carry sufficient drinking water and verify refills locally.
Provenance
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