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Great Sankey

Great Sankey is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England.

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The place

Great Sankey is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Warrington town centre and has a population of 31,600 according to the 2021 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Great Sankey

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 15 km · Manchester (MAN), 24 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 83 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Great Sankey
    85 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Sankey
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £14–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Great Sankey
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Sankey

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Manchester Airport a direct train runs hourly, taking 50 min via Manchester city centre and Newton-le-Willows, and continues to Runcorn, Chester, and along the north Welsh coast to Llandudno Junction, for Holyhead and ferries to Ireland.

From Wikivoyage: Warrington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    282 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    292 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    314 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    328 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    352 km

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Around it

Next door to Great Sankey

Great Sankey is 23 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.