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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
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    Shotwick 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
  2. 02
    All 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
  3. 03
    St 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
  4. 04
    St 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
  5. 05
    Holy 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
  6. 06
    St 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
  7. 07
    Inglewood, 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
  8. 08
    Shotwick 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
  9. 09
    Shotwick 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
  10. 10
    Ellesmere 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

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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 → Capenhurst
    54 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £7–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Capenhurst
    62 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Capenhurst
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £16–21
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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).

From Wikivoyage: Chester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    259 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    294 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    307 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    330 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    354 km

If you know how people move in Capenhurst – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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