Ellesmere
Ellesmere is a town in the civil parish of Ellesmere Urban, in Shropshire, England; it is located near to the Welsh border, the towns of Oswestry and Whitchurch, and the Welsh city of Wrexham.
Ellesmere is a town in the civil parish of Ellesmere Urban, in Shropshire, England; it is located near to the Welsh border, the towns of Oswestry and Whitchurch, and the Welsh city of Wrexham. It is notable for its proximity to a number of prominent meres.
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Worth seeing in and around Ellesmere
4 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.
- 01Ellesmere Castle
Ellesmere Castle was in the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire..
500 m · motte-and-bailey castle in Ellesmere Urban, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Michael and All Angels' Church, Welshampton
The Church of St Michael and All Angels is a Grade II listed Anglican church in the village of Welshampton in Shropshire. It was built in the 1860s for Frances Mainwaring and Salusbury Kynaston Mainwaring, in memory of Charles Kynaston Mainwaring of Oteley.
3.4 km · church in Shropshire, Egland · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's Church, Ellesmere
St Mary's Church stands on a hill in the town of Ellesmere, Shropshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ellesmere, the archdeaconry of Salop, and the diocese of Lichfield.
300 m · church in Ellesmere, Shropshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Colemere Countryside Site
Colemere Countryside Site is a countryside heritage site. Due to its important conservation status it has two key designations being a Site of Special Scientific Interest and an internationally important Ramsar wetland site.
4.1 km · countryside heritage site in Shropshire, England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ellesmere
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 48 km · Manchester (MAN), 64 km · Birmingham (BHX), 92 km
- Liverpool → Ellesmere56 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £7–9
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ellesmere77 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £9–12
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ellesmere82 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
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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 Ellesmere
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 Ellesmere. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Ellesmere – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Ellesmere
Ellesmere is 55 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Maelor Southcommunity in Wrexham, North Wales, UK4.6 km
- Hordleyvillage and civil parish in Shropshire, England, UK4.9 km
- Penleyvillage in Wrexham, Wales4.7 km
- Welshamptonvillage in Shropshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Bettisfieldvillage in Wrexham, Wales, UK6 km
- Balmer Heathvillage in Shropshire UK4.4 km