Croxteth
Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward.
Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward. Although housing in the area is predominantly modern, the suburb has some notable history. At the 2011 census it had a population of 14,561. It is also known by the colloquial nickname Crocky.
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Worth seeing in and around Croxteth
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.
- 01Stanley Park Stadium
Stanley Park was a proposed football stadium in Stanley Park, Liverpool. If built, it would have become home to the Liverpool Football Club.
3.8 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 02Stanley Park
Stanley Park is a 110 acres park in Liverpool, England, designed by Edward Kemp, which was opened on 14 May 1870 by the Mayor of Liverpool, Joseph Hubback. It is significant among Liverpool's parks on account of its layout and architecture.
3.8 km · park in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Walton Hall Park
Walton Hall Park in Walton, Liverpool, England is a 130-acre park. It was opened to the public on 18 July 1934 by King George V when he visited Liverpool to open the Queensway Tunnel.
2.9 km · public park in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 04Croxteth Hall
Croxteth Hall is a country estate and Grade II* listed building in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, England. It is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton.
1.3 km · country house in Croxteth, Liverpool, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of Saint John the Baptist
The Church of Saint John the Baptist is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool and lies in the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the deanery of West Derby. It is situated on the corner of West Derby Road and Green Lane, in Tuebrook, Liverpool, England.
3 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Mary's Church, Knowsley
St Mary's Church is in Knowsley Lane, Knowsley Village, Merseyside, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.7 km · grade II listed church in Knowsley, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Church of St Christopher, Norris Green
The Church of St Christopher is in Lorenzo Drive, Norris Green, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is a former Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the deanery of West Derby.
1.4 km · anglican church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church of St Paul, Liverpool
St Mary and St Cyril's Coptic Orthodox Church, previously known as the Church of St Paul, is a Coptic church in Stoneycroft, Liverpool, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.3 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St James' Church, West Derby, Liverpool
St Thomas Indian Orthodox Church, Liverpool is located on Mill Lane, West Derby, a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It was an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of West Derby, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool until 23 June 2019 when responsibility was handed over to the Indian Orthodox Church.
2.3 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill
St Mary's Church is in Walton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Walton, the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the diocese of Liverpool.
3.9 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Croxteth
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 13 km · Manchester (MAN), 43 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 94 km
- Stations
- Fazakerley railway station, 3 km · Orrell Park railway station, 4 km · Walton railway station, 4 km · Rice Lane railway station, 3.8 km · Walton & Anfield railway station, 3.6 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Croxteth44 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Croxteth97 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £11–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Croxteth129 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £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 Croxteth
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 Croxteth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis has ferries from Douglas operated by IOM Steam Packet, with two sailings a day taking three hours.
- Get inThe usual ferry is the fast cat Manannan, which carries vehicles.
- Get inA bus plies from the city centre to meet the ferries.
- Get inFrom Birkenhead, pedestrians and cyclists can catch the Mersey Ferries commuter service every 20 minutes between 7:20AM and 9:40AM, with a journey time of 10 minutes to Liverpool's Pier Head.
- Get inBetween rush hours, the ferries operate a river cruise service which provides an hourly link from Birkenhead to Liverpool.
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Next door to Croxteth
Croxteth is 6 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Knowsleymetropolitan borough of Merseyside, England3.9 km
- Kirkbytown in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England4 km
- Aintreevillage in Aintree Village civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK4 km
- Anfielddistrict of Liverpool3.5 km
- Waltondistrict of Liverpool, in Merseyside, England, UK3.2 km
- West Derbydistrict of Liverpool, England1.6 km