Holmeswood
Holmeswood is a small agricultural village in West Lancashire, in the north-west of England.
Holmeswood is a small agricultural village in West Lancashire, in the north-west of England. It lies just north of the Martin Mere Wetland Centre and to the south of North Meols about six miles east of the Irish Sea coast at Southport.
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Worth seeing in and around Holmeswood
2 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.
- 01Rufford New Hall
Rufford New Hall is a former country house that belonged to the Heskeths who were lords of the manor of Rufford, Lancashire, England. It replaced Rufford Old Hall as their residence in 1760.
2.5 km · country house in Rufford, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Rufford Old Hall
Rufford Old Hall is a National Trust property in Rufford, Lancashire, in north-west England. Built in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth centuries for the Hesketh family, only the great hall survives from the original structure.
3.2 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Holmeswood
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 51 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 83 km
- Stations
- New Lane railway station, 3.7 km · Rufford railway station, 3.7 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Holmeswood45 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Holmeswood88 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Holmeswood137 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £16–22
- 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 Holmeswood
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 Holmeswood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Holmeswood – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Holmeswood
Holmeswood is 17 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.