Great Altcar
Great Altcar is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, close to Formby on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain.
Great Altcar is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, close to Formby on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. The population as taken at the 2011 census was 213. The name Altcar is Norse meaning "marsh by the Alt". The church of St Michael and All Angels is a timber framed structure dating from 1879.
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Worth seeing in and around Great Altcar
7 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.
- 01Formby Lighthouse
Formby Lighthouse was a lighthouse station in Little Altcar, Merseyside. The lighthouse was converted in 1834 from a structure originally built in 1719.
3.2 km · British Lighthouse · Wikipedia - 02Lydiate Hall
Lydiate Hall was a 16th-century hall in Lydiate, Merseyside, England. The hall was a black-and-white half-timbered house, and was similar in design to Speke Hall.
4 km · building in Lydiate, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of the Holy Family Adjoining Service Wing of Ince Blundell Hall
The Church of the Holy Family is attached to the service wing of Ince Blundell Hall, near the village of Ince Blundell, Sefton, Merseyside, England. It is both an estate church and an active Roman Catholic parish church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.
3.3 km · church in Ince Blundell, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St 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.
3.2 km · grade II listed church in Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Formby 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.
3.7 km · house in Formby, Sefton, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St 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.
500 m · church in Great Altcar, West Lancashire, England,UK · Wikipedia - 07St Thomas' Church, Lydiate
St Thomas' Church is in Church Lane, Lydiate, Sefton, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ormskirk, the archdeaconry of Wigan and West Lancashire, and the diocese of Liverpool.
3.9 km · grade II listed church in Lydiate, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Great Altcar
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 26 km · Manchester (MAN), 54 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 96 km
- Stations
- Freshfield railway station, 3.9 km · Hightown railway station, 3.6 km · Formby railway station, 3.3 km · Altcar Rifle Range railway station, 3.2 km · Mossbridge railway station, 2.1 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Great Altcar51 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Great Altcar100 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £12–15
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Altcar140 km · quickest by road, 2h 59m · £17–22
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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 Great Altcar
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 Great Altcar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIntercity services arrive at Belfast ferries arrive at the The Isle of Man ferry arrives at Liverpool's Pier Head.
- Get aroundPassengers can take a bike on Merseyrail trains or the Mersey ferry at no extra charge.
- Get aroundCyclists will have to use the train or ferry to cross the river, during these times.
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Next door to Great Altcar
Great Altcar is 16 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, England3.2 km
- Hightownvillage and civil parish in Merseyside, UK3.6 km
- Ince Blundellvillage in Merseyside, England2.9 km
- Little Altcarcivil parish and suburban area in Merseyside, England2.2 km
- Freshfieldsuburb in Formby, Merseyside, England, UK3.6 km
- Carr Houseshamlet in Merseyside, England, UK2.6 km