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Freshfield

Freshfield is an area of Formby, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, situated at the northern end of the town.

Freshfield
Freshfield · Dietmar Rabich
The place

Freshfield is an area of Formby, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, situated at the northern end of the town. It has no local political distinction or representation and is included as part of the two council wards which make up Formby, nor is it any longer separated in a physical sense from the town.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Freshfield

5 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
    St Luke's Church, Formby

    St Luke's Church is in St Luke's Church Road, Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. The original chapel on the site was destroyed by a sandstorm in 1739.

    1.6 km · grade II listed church in Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Formby Lighthouse

    Formby Lighthouse was a lighthouse station in Little Altcar, Merseyside. The lighthouse was converted in 1834 from a structure originally built in 1719.

    2.7 km · British Lighthouse · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Peter's Church, Formby

    St Peter's Church is in Green Lane, Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. It was built in 1746 to replace a chapel on another site that had been destroyed in a storm.

    800 m · grade II listed church in Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Formby Hall

    Formby Hall is located to the north-east of Formby in the English metropolitan county of Merseyside, in secluded woodland adjoining the Formby Hall Golf and Country Club. The present house, built for William Formby, dates back to 1523 but it is believed that the Formby family has occupied the site since the 12th century.

    2.7 km · house in Formby, Sefton, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Altcar

    St Michael and All Angels Church stands to the west of the village of Great Altcar, West Lancashire, England. The church is timber-framed and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    3.1 km · church in Great Altcar, West Lancashire, England,UK · 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 Freshfield

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 29 km · Manchester (MAN), 57 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 99 km
Stations
Royal Air Force Station Woodvale, 2.3 km · Freshfield railway station, 400 m · Formby railway station, 1 km · Altcar Rifle Range railway station, 3.6 km · Mossbridge railway station, 3.8 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Freshfield
    12 km · quickest by road, 41 min · £1.5–2
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Freshfield
    24 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £3–4
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Freshfield
    11 km · quickest by road, 33 min · £1–1.5
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Freshfield

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

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    261 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    287 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    297 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    321 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    342 km

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

Around it

Next door to Freshfield

Freshfield is 18 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Formbytown and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England500 m
  • Great Altcarvillage and civil parish in West Lancashire, England3.6 km
  • Little Altcarcivil parish and suburban area in Merseyside, England2.2 km
  • Woodvalevillage in North West England, UK3.6 km