Capenhurst
Capenhurst is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

Capenhurst is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is two miles south west of Ellesmere Port, at the southern end of the Wirral Peninsula.
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Worth seeing in and around Capenhurst
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Shotwick Castle
Shotwick Castle is a Norman medieval fortification near the village of Saughall, Cheshire, England. Construction began in the late 11th century.
3.8 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Saughall and Shotwick Park, Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02All Saints Church, Great Saughall
All Saints Church, Great Saughall, is located in Church Road in the civil parish of Saughall and Shotwick Park, formerly Saughall and before that Great Saughall, in the county of Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
3.4 km · grade II listed church in Saughall, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Michael's Church, Shotwick
St Michael's Church is the Church of England parish church of Shotwick, Cheshire, England. It a Grade I listed building.
3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Shotwick, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Oswald's Church, Backford
St Oswald's Church is in the village of Backford, to the northwest of Chester, Cheshire, England, close to the A41 road and adjoining Backford Hall. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.8 km · church in Backford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Holy Trinity Church, Capenhurst
Holy Trinity Church, Capenhurst is in the village of Capenhurst, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
100 m · Grade II listed church in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Paul's Church
St Paul's Church is in the village of Hooton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
3.6 km · church in the village of Hooton, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Inglewood, Cheshire
Inglewood is a house to the north-west of the village of Ledsham, Cheshire, England. It was built in 1909, but is dated 1915.
2.8 km · grade II listed English country house in Ledsham, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Shotwick Hall
Shotwick Hall is a former manor house in the village of Shotwick, Cheshire, England. It replaced an earlier manor house that stood on a moated site some 150 metres to the west.
3.5 km · country house in Shotwick, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Shotwick House
Shotwick House is a large house in Great Saughall, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.7 km · grade II listed English country house in Saughall, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Ellesmere Port Council Offices
Ellesmere Port Council Offices is a municipal building in Civic Way in Ellesmere Port, a town in Cheshire, in England. The building served as the headquarters of Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council but is now disused.
3.7 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Capenhurst
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 11 km · Manchester (MAN), 46 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 109 km
- Stations
- Capenhurst railway station, 600 m · Little Sutton railway station, 3.1 km · Overpool railway station, 3.3 km · Hope Farm, 2.2 km · Cheshire Oaks Arena, 3.9 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Capenhurst54 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Capenhurst62 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Capenhurst125 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Capenhurst
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Capenhurst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inManchester – Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road every 30 minutes, taking just over an hour via Warrington and Runcorn, and continuing along the Welsh coast to Holyhead (for Dublin ferries).
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If you know how people move in Capenhurst – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Capenhurst
Capenhurst is 16 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mollingtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England4 km
- Puddingtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England3.9 km
- Backfordvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Ledshamvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK1.1 km
- Lea by Backfordhamlet and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England3.7 km
- Woodbankvillage in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, United Kingdom1.5 km