To mark this tradition two Viking Heritage experiences are available:

• The Wirral Viking heritage trail, which can be visited by car or bicycle.

• The Wirral Viking Churches Heritage Walk, held annually on the weekend nearest St. Olav’s Day (29th July), can only be visited by foot.

The visitor centre at Thurstaston is the site of the Viking Thorsteinn’s farmstead and the scene of the boat burning at Thurstaston beach.

Thurstaston Common is the highest point on Wirral and Thor's stone. Tradition goes back centuries that this was the legendary stone from Thor’s hammer mjollnir, and today is the site of Viking stile marriages and 1st May celebrations.

Irby has a famous sign post with all the Viking names, and nearby, at Heskeths (hestaskeið) field, is where the Vikings used to race horses.

The Thing or Viking parliament

Thingwall, at Cross Hill, is the site of the Thing or Viking parliament. You can see the hill clearly from the roadside.

The hill itself is privately owned and currently used to graze horses. The nearby Bassett Hound Pub stands opposite the edge of the mound and directly opposite the entrance to the reservoir on the other side of the road.

A Viking Couple

At Neston Parish Church, St. Mary’s and St. Helen’s, stone fragments depict events in the life of a Viking couple.  The fragments of what used to be at least 2 Norse Ring-Headed Crosses are now displayed inside the church, and include the earliest depiction of a Jousting Contest.

Ancient Stolpi Stepping Stones

Raby Mere, the boundary of the orginal Norse settlement. It has a beautiful lake setting, and here you can cross the famous and Ancient Stolpi Stepping Stones over the River Dibbin.

Marshland of the Thing

Warmby, which is now Sheldrakes in Heswall, is believed to be site of the legendary Dingesmere "Thing’s Mjarr", the wetland / marshland of the "Thing".

Battle of Brunanburh (Bromborough)

Poulton Hall and Raby Mere is the south-east boundary of the original Norse settlements.  Raby means "boundary settlement".

Poulton Hall is close to Bebington Heath, candidate site for the Battle of Brunanburh. The site owned by the Lancelyn-Green family may have been the site of Bruna’s Burh or Fortress.

It is also home of Sue Sharples, the splendid "Brunanburgh Viking" sculpture, unveiled in April 2004.

Brunanburh is Bebington Heath, at the edge of the golf course and the Grammar School grounds, is the favoured site by the experts of the Battle of Brunanburh (the old name for Bromborough is Brunanburh).

Viking Cross

At St. Barnabas Church, is the Norse Ring Headed Cross which was reconstructed in 1957, and just outside the church entrance.

Bromborough Court House

At the moated site off Pool Lane, is the other candidate site for "Bruna's fortress" and nearby "Wargraves".  This is the originall candidate for the battle site before the now preferred Bebington Heath.

Navigable by Viking boats

Dibbinsdale is Viking “Klints” at Brotherton Park. The Dibbin was once navigable by Viking boats.

Storeton Hall and Storeton Woods.

Storeton "the great farmstead" and home of Sir John Stanley. Both Hall and Stanley are strongly connected with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the famous 14th century poem full of Norse dialect words. It is Privately owned, but you can see the 14th century farm from the bottom of Red Hill Road.

Viking Burial Ground - Arno Hill

This is the site of the pagan burial mound called Arni (or Erni).

Tranmere Rovers Football Ground

Tranmael "Cranebird Sandbank" is unique in being the only football team in the English league with a Norwegian Viking name.  Many Scandinavians come over to watch Tranmere when they play on Friday nights and then watch a bigger (non-Scandinavian) team such as Man Utd or Liverpool on the Saturday/Sunday.

Tranmere river front is where the Norsemen first saw the Cranebirds.

Bidston Hill Mini-Hogback Viking tombstone

At Bidston is the Mini-Hogback Viking tombstone which was found in 2004. Currently not available for display to the public but plans are to have it displayed at nearby Bidston Observatory.

Ufaldi’s Green

Ufaldi’s Green just down the hill from Claughton (klakkr-tun – farmstead on a hillock). Part of the beautiful Birkenhead Park from which New York’s Central Park was modelled, was once the land of the Viking Ufaldi.  Recently re-opened after an £11 million facelift by Patricia Routledge and Mike McCartney.

Wallasey Brekka - Granny Rock

The "slope on a hillside" and Klint "projecting rock" (now called the Granny Rock, off Millthwaite Road). The amazing story of "ye Clynsse".

It is only possible to climb this rock with climbing gear. Parish records record how 2 girls had a fatal accident here in 1642.

The Black Rocks

At the Estuary waves crashing against "Svartskere", are the black rocks (upon which Fort Perch Rock has been built).

Canute Chair

Lingham "lyng-holm" Lighthouse & seafront. Closeby the Leasowe Castle was the so-called Canute chair built in the early 1800's by the Cust family. Perhaps based on an old tradition that Canute could help do something about keeping the floods at bay.

There are about 80 field names in Wirral with the name carr or holm from the Scandinavian kjarr and holmr – words associated with floods and marshland.

Viking Sea Port

At Meols is the old Viking sea-port of "Melr".

Arrowe Park used to be Viking farmland and is today used by the local Viking re-enactment group Wirhalh Skip Felag for craft displays and battles.

The Heswall Slack, a pub with a Viking name was called "Slakki, meaning a cut through.

Skerry Rocks

At Tonn-skere is Tooth Skerry Rocks, just out from the West Kirby shore and south of Hilbre island.

The Railway Inn - Meols

At the Railway Inn in Meols, under the car park, lies an ancient medieval Clinker vessel. If not from the original Scandinavian settlers then probably from their near-descendants.

The Hogback Tombstone

At West Kirby, St. Bridgets & the famous hogback tombstone has been restored by the Merseyside Conservation Centre.