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Great Sutton

Great Sutton is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

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The place

Great Sutton is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, in the unitary authority area of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is a suburb of Ellesmere Port and, as with Little Sutton to the north, was once a separate village that was incorporated into the town as it expanded outwards.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Great Sutton

8 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
    Shropshire Union Canal

    The Shropshire Union Canal, sometimes nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. It is the modern name for a part of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company network.

    2.5 km · canal in North West England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ellesmere Canal

    The Ellesmere Canal was a waterway in England and Wales that was planned to carry boat traffic between the rivers Mersey and Severn. The proposal would have created a link between the Port of Liverpool and the mineral industries in north east Wales and the manufacturing centres in the West Midlands.

    2.5 km · canal in the United Kingdom, now known as the Llangollen Cana · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Holy Trinity Church, Capenhurst

    Holy Trinity Church, Capenhurst is in the village of Capenhurst, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.2 km · Grade II listed church in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Paul's Church

    St Paul's Church is in the village of Hooton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.

    2.4 km · church in the village of Hooton, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Ellesmere Port Lighthouse

    Ellesmere Port Dock is a dock in Britain, situated on the Manchester Ship Canal, in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.

    2.1 km · lighthouse in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ellesmere Port Council Offices

    Ellesmere Port Council Offices is a municipal building in Civic Way in Ellesmere Port, a town in Cheshire, in England. The building served as the headquarters of Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council but is now disused.

    1 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Mary of the Angels, Hooton

    The Church of St Mary of the Angels is in Welsh Road, Hooton, Cheshire, England. It is an active Roman Catholic parish church in the diocese of Shrewsbury.

    3.1 km · Grade II listed church in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Mount Manisty

    Mount Manisty is a large uninhabited man-made hillock located between the Manchester Ship Canal and the River Mersey 1.5 miles northwest of Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, England. The mound, which is 100 feet tall, was created from earth excavated during the building of the ship canal between Eastham and Ellesmere Port in the late 19th century.

    2.7 km · Manmade hill in Cheshire, 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.

Go there

Getting to Great Sutton

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 8 km · Manchester (MAN), 43 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 106 km
Stations
Ellesmere Port, 1.5 km · Vauxhall Motors F.C., 2.3 km · Ellesmere Port railway station, 1.6 km · Capenhurst railway station, 2.7 km · Overpool railway station, 600 m
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Great Sutton
    52 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Great Sutton
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £12–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Great Sutton
    23 km · quickest by road, 45 min · £2.5–3.5
  • From anywhere
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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.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Great Sutton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inBuses 38 (Bromborough–West Kirby), 410 (Clatterbridge–New Brighton), 418 (Beechwood–New Ferry) and 464 (Liverpool–New Ferry) stop near Bebington station on the Bebington Road or Old Chester Road.

From Wikivoyage: Port Sunlight, 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

    262 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    293 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    309 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    329 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    353 km

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

Around it

Next door to Great Sutton

Great Sutton is 14 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.