Kirkby
Kirkby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.
Kirkby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. The town, historically in Lancashire, has a size of 4,070 acres (16.5 km2) is 5 miles (8 km) north of Huyton and 6 miles (10 km) north-east of Liverpool. The population in 2016 was 41,495 making it the largest in Knowsley and the 9th biggest settlement in Merseyside.
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Worth seeing in and around Kirkby
9 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.
- 01Walton Hall Park
Walton Hall Park in Walton, Liverpool, England is a 130-acre park. It was opened to the public on 18 July 1934 by King George V when he visited Liverpool to open the Queensway Tunnel.
5.4 km · public park in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 02Croxteth 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.
4.2 km · country house in Croxteth, Liverpool, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's Church, Knowsley
St Mary's Church is in Knowsley Lane, Knowsley Village, Merseyside, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.6 km · grade II listed church in Knowsley, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Chad's Church, Kirkby
St Chad's Church is in Old Hall Lane, Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Huyton, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool.
500 m · church in Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Christopher, Norris Green
The Church of St Christopher is in Lorenzo Drive, Norris Green, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is a former Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the deanery of West Derby.
4.9 km · anglican church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Everton Cemetery
Everton Cemetery, in Long Lane, Fazakerley, Liverpool, opened in July 1880.
4.3 km · municipal cemetery in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 07Warbreck Park
Warbreck Park is a park in Walton, Liverpool, located on the site of the former Liverpool Corporation Tramways depot. The main access is from Warbreck Moor.
4.3 km · park in Liverpool, UK · Wikipedia - 08West Derby Cemetery
West Derby Cemetery, Lower House Lane, Croxteth. Opened in January 1884 it has been used for Church of England, Roman Catholic and Jewish burials.
3.4 km · municipal cemetery in Croxteth, Liverpool · Wikipedia - 09Simmonswood Hall
Simonswood Hall is a country house in the civil parish of Simonswood in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. It was built in 1687 and thoroughly restored in the 1880s.
2.7 km · house in Simonswood, West Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kirkby
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 16 km · Manchester (MAN), 43 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 92 km
- Stations
- Aintree railway station, 4.4 km · Kirkby railway station, 1.1 km · Fazakerley railway station, 3.3 km · Maghull railway station, 4 km · Old Roan railway station, 4.1 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Kirkby43 km · quickest by road, 1h 5m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Kirkby95 km · quickest by road, 2h · £11–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kirkby130 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Kirkby
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 Kirkby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis has ferries from Douglas operated by IOM Steam Packet, with two sailings a day taking three hours.
- Get inThe usual ferry is the fast cat Manannan, which carries vehicles.
- Get inA bus plies from the city centre to meet the ferries.
- Get inFrom Birkenhead, pedestrians and cyclists can catch the Mersey Ferries commuter service every 20 minutes between 7:20AM and 9:40AM, with a journey time of 10 minutes to Liverpool's Pier Head.
- Get inBetween rush hours, the ferries operate a river cruise service which provides an hourly link from Birkenhead to Liverpool.
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Next door to Kirkby
Kirkby is 10 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Knowsleymetropolitan borough of Merseyside, England5.2 km
- Maghulltown and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England5.5 km
- Aintreevillage in Aintree Village civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK3.1 km
- Waltondistrict of Liverpool, in Merseyside, England, UK6 km
- Mellingvillage and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England, UK3 km
- Simonswoodcivil parish in Lancashire, England, UK2.9 km