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Huyton

Huyton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.

Huyton
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The place

Huyton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. Part of the Liverpool Built-up Area, it borders the Liverpool suburbs of Dovecot, Knotty Ash and Netherley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Huyton

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
    Liverpool Hope University

    Liverpool Hope University is a public university with campuses in Liverpool, England. ‌The university grew out of three teacher training colleges: Saint Katharine's College, Notre Dame College and Christ's College.

    4.1 km · university in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    20 Forthlin Road

    20 Forthlin Road is a National Trust property in Allerton in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is the house in which Paul McCartney lived for several years before he rose to fame with the Beatles, and it is labelled by the National Trust as "the birthplace of the Beatles".

    6 km · house in which Paul McCartney had lived for several years · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    12 Arnold Grove

    12 Arnold Grove is the birthplace and early childhood home of former Beatle George Harrison. Located in Wavertree, Liverpool, near Picton Clock Tower, it is a small terraced house in a cul-de-sac, with a small alley to the rear.

    5.2 km · birth house of George Harrison of The Beatles · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Calderstones Park

    Calderstones Park is a public park in the Allerton area of Liverpool, England, about 4 miles south-east of the city centre. The 126 acres park is mainly a family park.

    4.8 km · public park in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St. Peter's Church

    St Peter's Church is in Church Road, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Liverpool South Childwall, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool.

    4.4 km · church in Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    All Saints' Church, Childwall

    All Saints' Church, is in Childwall, Liverpool, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is the only medieval church remaining in the Metropolitan borough of Liverpool.

    3.3 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Croxteth Hall

    Croxteth Hall is a country estate and Grade II* listed building in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, England. It is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton.

    4.8 km · country house in Croxteth, Liverpool, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Knowsley Safari Park

    Knowsley Safari is a safari park and tourist attraction in Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria.

    3.9 km · zoo in Merseyside, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Calderstones House

    Calderstones House, Calderstones Park, Liverpool, England, is a 19th-century mansion house which is now at the centre of a public park. The house was built in the Allerton suburb in 1828 for Joseph Need Walker, a lead shot manufacturer.

    4.9 km · mansion in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of All Hallows, Allerton

    The Church of All Hallows is in Allerton, Liverpool, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the deanery of Liverpool South – Childwall.

    5.4 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, 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.

Go there

Getting to Huyton

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 8 km · Manchester (MAN), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 93 km
Stations
Wavertree Technology Park railway station, 5.5 km · Hunts Cross railway station, 5.7 km · Broad Green railway station, 3.6 km · Prescot railway station, 3.1 km · Eccleston Park railway station, 4.5 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Huyton
    95 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Huyton
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £15–20
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Huyton
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Huyton

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 Huyton. 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

    278 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    283 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    319 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    320 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    343 km

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

Around it

Next door to Huyton

Huyton is 9 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Knowsleymetropolitan borough of Merseyside, England3.2 km
  • Whistonvillage and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, UK2.8 km
  • Prescottown in Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England2.1 km
  • Halewoodsuburb and civil parish in Merseyside, UK5.7 km
  • Rainhillan area in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England5.2 km
  • Wooltondistrict of Liverpool4.4 km