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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.

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    St 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
  2. 02
    St 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
  3. 03
    St 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
  4. 04
    Frodsham 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
  5. 05
    St 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
  6. 06
    St 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
  7. 07
    Hapsford 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
  8. 08
    Ince 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
  9. 09
    Helsby 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
  10. 10
    Alvanley 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

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 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 → Helsby
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £11–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Helsby
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £14–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Helsby
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe town centre is quickly reachable by taking the A568 bypass south (Watkinson Way) and turning west onto A562 (Fiddler's Ferry Road).

From Wikivoyage: Widnes, 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

    267 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    304 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    335 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    359 km

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

Around it

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