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Frankby

Frankby is a village and former civil parish, in the Wirral district, in Merseyside, England.

Frankby
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The place

Frankby is a village and former civil parish, in the Wirral district, in Merseyside, England. It is located on the Wirral Peninsula between Greasby and Newton on the outskirts of the town of West Kirby and south of Hoylake. The hamlet of Larton is to the north west. Historically within the county of Cheshire, it is part of the Greasby, Frankby and Irby Ward and is in the parliamentary constituency of Wirral West.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Frankby

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
    Church of the Resurrection and All Saints, Caldy

    The Church of the Resurrection and All Saints is in the village of Caldy, Wirral, Merseyside, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    2.4 km · grade II listed church in Caldy, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. Bartholomew's Church, Thurstaston

    St Bartholomew's Church is in the village of Thurstaston, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the deanery of Wirral North.

    2.7 km · church in Wirral, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Andrew's Church, West Kirby

    St Andrew's Church is in Meols Drive, West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the deanery of Wirral North.

    3.3 km · Grade II listed church in West Kirby, Wirral, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Bridget's Church, West Kirby

    St Bridget's Church is in the town of West Kirby, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Wirral North.

    2.7 km · grade II listed church in West Kirby, Wirral, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St John the Divine, Frankby

    The Church of St John the Divine, is in Frankby Road, Frankby, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is a lively and active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral North, the archdeaconry of Chester and the diocese of Chester.

    300 m · grade II listed church in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Hildeburgh's Church, Hoylake

    St Hildeburgh's Parish Church is in Stanley Road, Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican church in the deanery of Wirral, North, the archdeaconry of Chester and the diocese of Chester.

    3.8 km · grade II listed church in Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hoylake Lighthouse

    Hoylake is a seaside town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is at the north west of the Wirral Peninsula, near West Kirby and where the River Dee meets the Irish Sea.

    3.8 km · lighthouse in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Congregational Church, Hoylake

    The Congregational Church is in Station Road, Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.5 km · Grade II listed church in Hoylake, Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Holy Cross Church, Woodchurch

    Holy Cross Church is in Woodchurch, an area of Birkenhead, Wirral, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Birkenhead.

    3.1 km · church in Woodchurch, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Caldy Hill

    Caldy Hill is an area of heath and woodland on a sandstone outcrop on the Wirral Peninsula in North West England. The land was bought by Hoylake District Council between 1897 and 1974.

    2.1 km · park in Caldy, United Kingdom · 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 Frankby

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 19 km · Manchester (MAN), 57 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 112 km
Stations
Upton railway station, 3.8 km · West Kirby railway station, 3.2 km · Hoylake railway station, 3.4 km · Manor Road railway station, 3.4 km · Meols railway station, 3.2 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Frankby
    61 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £6–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Frankby
    115 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £12–16
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Frankby
    140 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Frankby

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 Frankby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextChester Belfast, via the ro-ro Stena Lines MS Norbay ferry terminal in Twelve Quays, Birkenhead.

From Wikivoyage: Wirral, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-01.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    265 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    277 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    313 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    324 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    337 km

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

Around it

Next door to Frankby

Frankby is 8 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hoylakeseaside town in Wirral, Merseyside, England3.5 km
  • Greasbyvillage in Merseyside, England900 m
  • Moretontown on the north coast of the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, England3.6 km
  • Caldyvillage in Wirral, Merseyside, United Kingdom2.4 km
  • Meolsvillage in England, United Kingdom3.5 km
  • Thingwallvillage in Wirral, Merseyside, England3.7 km