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Worth seeing in and around Ince

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.

    3.3 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.

    3.3 km · canal in the United Kingdom, now known as the Llangollen Cana · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    500 m · Grade II* listed church in Ince, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church, Thornton-le-Moors

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the small village of Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and it is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.1 km · church in Thornton-le-Moors, 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.

    3.9 km · lighthouse in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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    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.

    3.6 km · grade II listed English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    400 m · Grade I listed building in Ince, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Lawrence's Church, Stoak

    St Lawrence's Church is in the village of Stoak, Cheshire, England,. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    4 km · church in Stoak, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ince

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 6 km · Manchester (MAN), 38 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 101 km
Stations
Stanlow and Thornton railway station, 800 m · Ince and Elton railway station, 1.3 km · Westminster, 3.8 km · Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet, 3.9 km · National Waterways Museum, Ellesmere Port, 3.9 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ince
    102 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ince
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–20
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ince
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ince

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inManchester – Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road every 30 minutes, taking just over an hour via Warrington and Runcorn, and continuing along the Welsh coast to Holyhead (for Dublin ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Chester, 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

    265 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    307 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    331 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    356 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ince

Ince is 17 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Eltonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England1.3 km
  • Thornton-le-Moorsvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, UK2.1 km