Knotty Ash
Knotty Ash is an area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward, historically in Lancashire.
Knotty Ash is an area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward, historically in Lancashire. The population at the 2001 Census was 13,200, increasing to 13,312 at the 2011 Census. Knotty Ash is well known as the home of comedian Sir Ken Dodd, who often mentioned it in his act.
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Getting to Knotty Ash
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 9 km · Manchester (MAN), 41 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 95 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Knotty Ash44 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £4.5–6
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Knotty Ash99 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Knotty Ash127 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–20
- 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 Knotty Ash
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 Knotty Ash. 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 Knotty Ash
Knotty Ash is 6 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.