Exploring Bidston Hill & Bidston Moss on the Wirral

Not a big tall hill just 231ft but that’s enough to give you a commanding view of the Wirral and Liverpool. Starting from the free car park at Tam O Shanter Urban Farm we head through the woods onto the lowland heath to pick up the sandstone ridge. We pass Bidston Windmill, a windmill dating to the late 18th Century and then on to the top for a commanding view. Have a good look at the carvings in the rock, I missed most of it as I was moving apace but there are carvings believed to date back to 1000AD which are Norse-Irish in origin including a Norse sun goddess. We carry on to the Observatory which was built to keep time and linked to the 1 o’clock gun at Morpeth Docks. Behind this is the lighthouse which work as a pair with the lighthouse at the coast at Leasowe that we’ve visited before to keep the ships off the sand banks. Next we head down the far side of the hill passing Bidston Hall and on to Bidston Train Station, over the Birket (a tributary of the river Mersery) to Bidston Moss. We run around the moss and then back through to Wallasey Bridge Road opposite Birkenhead Docks and then head back up the road to our starting point