Lifeboat Sands {S Lancs} Traditional Cache
John Stead: Sorry - the sea has done its work and the cache has gone or is under tons of stone.
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Back of the beach
This is Britain's first lifeboat station established about 1776 and rebuilt in 1793, serving until 1918.
There are splendid views on a clear day taking in Liverpool, the Wirral and the North Wales Coast as far as Anglesey and Snowdonia, together with the Liverpool Bay gas rigs and shipping into and out of Liverpool.
If the tide is out and you go along the beach you may find prehistoric footprints - really! And if the season is right Natterjack Toads!
You will need your sand shoes as the sand drifts around but please stay on the marked routes so as not to damage the dunes.
The nearest car park is at Lifeboat Road and will cost a well spent £2.50 (in season) or you can walk along the beach from the Red Squirrels at the National Trust reserve a mile to the north. You can park for free near St Lukes Church (N 53 33.154; W 3 5.217)from which it can be a very pleasant walk through the pine woods.
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