Helsby
Helsby is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Helsby is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. Overlooking the Mersey estuary, it is approximately 9 miles (14 km) north east of Chester and 2.5 miles (4 km) south west of Frodsham.
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Worth seeing in and around Helsby
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.
- 01St John the Evangelist's Church, Alvanley
St John the Evangelist's Church is in the village of Alvanley, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Frodsham.
1.7 km · church in Alvanley, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St James' Church, Ince
St James' Church is in the village of Ince, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.9 km · Grade II* listed church in Ince, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Luke's Church, Dunham on the Hill
St Luke's Church is in the village of Dunham on the Hill, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Frodsham, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
2.8 km · grade II listed church in Dunham-on-the-Hill and Hapsford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Frodsham Castle
Frodsham Castle was in the market town of Frodsham, Cheshire, England. Initially it served a military purpose, it then became a manor house and a gaol.
3.4 km · Castle in England · Wikipedia - 05St Laurence's Church, Frodsham
St Laurence's Church is in Church Road, Frodsham, Cheshire, England. The church stands, not in the centre of the town, but in the elevated area of Overton overlooking the town.
3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Frodsham, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Paul's Church, Helsby
St Paul's Church is in the village of Helsby, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Frodsham.
800 m · Grade II listed church in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Hapsford Hall
Hapsford Hall is a country house about 1 mile south-west of Helsby, Cheshire, England. It was built in the late 18th or early 19th century and incorporates a former farmhouse; additions and alterations have been made since it was built.
1.7 km · grade II listed English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Ince Manor
Ince Manor or Ince Grange is a former monastic grange in the village of Ince in Cheshire, England. The remains of the manor house, consisting of the old hall and the monastery cottages, are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and a scheduled monument It is one of only two surviving monastic manorial buildings in Cheshire, the other being Saighton Grange Gatehouse.
4 km · Grade I listed building in Ince, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Helsby War Memorial
Helsby War Memorial was built to commemorate the servicemen of Helsby lost in active service in the First World War. It was unveiled in 1920, and the names of those lost in the Second World War were added later.
700 m · war memorial in Helsby, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Alvanley Hall
Alvanley Hall is in Manley Road, 0.25 miles to the southeast of the village of Alvanley, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
2.3 km · house in Alvanley, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Helsby
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 9 km · Manchester (MAN), 34 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 99 km
- Stations
- Helsby railway station, 200 m · Ince and Elton railway station, 3.1 km · Dunham Hill railway station, 3.3 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Helsby99 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £11–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Helsby114 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £14–19
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Helsby106 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £13–17
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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 Helsby
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 Helsby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe town centre is quickly reachable by taking the A568 bypass south (Watkinson Way) and turning west onto A562 (Fiddler's Ferry Road).
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Next door to Helsby
Helsby is 21 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Frodshamtown and civil parish in Cheshire, England3.9 km
- Eltonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England3.1 km
- Incevillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Manleyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Alvanleyvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, UK2.9 km