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Kirkdale

Kirkdale is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council ward that covers both Kirkdale and Vauxhall.

Kirkdale
Kirkdale · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kirkdale is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council ward that covers both Kirkdale and Vauxhall. At the 2011 Census, the population was 16,115. Kirkdale is bordered by Bootle to the north, Walton and Everton to the east and Vauxhall to the south.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kirkdale

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
    Anfield

    Anfield is a football stadium in the area of Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has been the home of Liverpool Football Club since their formation in 1892. The stadium has a seating capacity of 61,276, making it the fifth-largest football stadium in England.

    2.5 km · football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Goodison Park

    Goodison Park is a football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, England, two miles north of the city centre. It was built to serve as the home ground of Everton and opened in 1892.

    2.5 km · football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    University of Liverpool

    The University of Liverpool is a public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool and affiliated with Victoria University in 1884, it received a royal charter from King Edward VII in 1903, thereby attaining the authority to award degrees independently.

    3.2 km · university in Liverpool, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hill Dickinson Stadium

    Hill Dickinson Stadium, known as Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium or Everton Stadium during construction and renamed for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in Vauxhall, Liverpool, England. It is the home ground of Premier League club Everton, replacing Goodison Park.

    400 m · football stadium in Liverpool, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    The Cavern Club

    The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England. The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

    2.5 km · nightclub in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Liverpool Cathedral

    Liverpool Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Liverpool, England. It is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool and is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool.

    3.7 km · cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

    Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, officially known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King and locally nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam" or "The Mersey Funnel", is the seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. The Grade I Metropolitan Cathedral is one of Liverpool's many listed buildings.

    3.2 km · Catholic cathedral. seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool in England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Echo Arena Liverpool

    Liverpool Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the city centre of Liverpool, England. The venue hosts live music, comedy performances and sporting events, and forms part of Liverpool event campus ACC Liverpool – an interconnected arena, exhibition and convention centre.

    3.3 km · arena in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Walker Art Gallery

    The Walker Art Gallery is a Grade II* listed art gallery in Liverpool which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group.

    2.3 km · art museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Liverpool John Moores University

    Liverpool John Moores University is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, United Kingdom. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, established in 1823.

    3.3 km · university in Liverpool, England · 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 Kirkdale

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 14 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 101 km
Stations
Liverpool Lime Street railway station, 2.6 km · Port of Liverpool, 2.4 km · Liverpool Central railway station, 2.8 km · Birkenhead Hamilton Square railway station, 3.8 km · Moorfields railway station, 2.2 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Kirkdale
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £5–7
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Kirkdale
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kirkdale
    133 km · quickest by road, 2h 49m · £16–21
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kirkdale

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIntercity services arrive at Belfast ferries arrive at the The Isle of Man ferry arrives at Liverpool's Pier Head.
  • Get aroundPassengers can take a bike on Merseyrail trains or the Mersey ferry at no extra charge.
  • Get aroundCyclists will have to use the train or ferry to cross the river, during these times.

From Wikivoyage: Merseyside, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    275 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    276 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    312 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    326 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    336 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kirkdale

Kirkdale is 2 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Liverpoolcity in Merseyside, England, United Kingdom2.3 km
  • Bootletown within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England2.5 km
  • Wirralmetropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England3.5 km
  • Seftonmetropolitan borough in Merseyside, England2 km
  • Evertondistrict in Liverpool, in Merseyside, England2.4 km
  • ChinatownArea of Liverpool city centre3.4 km