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Next Meeting November 2008: 7.00pm at the visitors centre, all are welcome
Wirral Country Park & Wirral Way
some recent photos from the famous Wirral Coastal Walk
- Managing Organisation: Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
- Contact the Rangers: James Locke or Malcolm Ingram
- Telephone: 0151 648 4371 / 3884
- E-Mail: jameslocke@wirralcountrypark.gov.uk
- www.WCPFG.org.uk
- Wirral Country Park Friends Group
Information about this wonderful open space, a very special location.
Wirral Country Park is a major leisure facility and wildlife habitat. For 35 years, it has been Wirral’s most popular visitor attraction, not only for local people, but also from Merseyside, the North West and beyond. The ‘backbone’ of the park is the 12 mile long Wirral Way, a footpath and bridleway developed on a disused railway, which closed in 1962. The park is large and diverse enough to absorb a wide variety of activities, from walking, riding, cycling, running, bird watching, picnicking plus BBQ’s. A number of access points, viewpoints and picnic sites along the length of the park allow for short circular or longer linear walks, with good public transport links at either end of the Wirral Way and at various points in between. Half way along the Wirral Way is the parks core site at Thurstaston Visitors Centre. This is where the park amenities are centred such as parking, toilets and a visitor centre shop. A stretch of amenity grassland provides access to the cliff and there are a number of wildlife ponds. The cliffs offer fantastic views of the Dee Estuary across to Wales as well as access down to the beach. The wider park takes in ‘Cubbins Green’ and a woodland gorge The Dungeon’ both accessible from the Wirral Way. There are three Sites of Special Scientific Interest and three Sites of Biological Interest. The park is also a gateway to the Dee Estuary, which has multiple international designations including Wetland of International Importance (RAMSAR).