Knowsley
Knowsley, commonly known as Knowsley Village, is a large village and civil parish in Merseyside located on the north-east outskirts of Liverpool, within the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley It gave its name to the wider borough when it was formed in 1974.
Knowsley, commonly known as Knowsley Village, is a large village and civil parish in Merseyside located on the north-east outskirts of Liverpool, within the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley It gave its name to the wider borough when it was formed in 1974.
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Worth seeing in and around Knowsley
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.
- 01Croxteth 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.
2.8 km · country house in Croxteth, Liverpool, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Knowsley 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.
2.7 km · zoo in Merseyside, England · Wikipedia - 03St. Aloysius Catholic Church
St Aloysius, Roby, on the outskirts of Liverpool. The church designed by F. X. Velarde and consecrated on 23 April 1885.
3.5 km · church building in Liverpool, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Prescot Parish Church
Prescot Parish Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is in the town of Prescot, Merseyside, 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.
3.7 km · Grade I listed church in Prescot, Knowsley, Merseyside UK · Wikipedia - 05St 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.
700 m · grade II listed church in Knowsley, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Valerie Park
The Joseph Russell Stadium, traditionally known as Hope Street, is a stadium in Prescot, Merseyside. It is located on Eaton Street in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley.
3.6 km · sports stadium in Prescot · Wikipedia - 07Broughton Hall
Broughton Hall is a Gothic Revival house at Yew Tree Lane in West Derby, Liverpool, England. It was built in 1860 for Gustav Christian Schwabe, a Liverpool merchant originating from Hamburg, Germany.
3.8 km · house in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Flat Iron Building
Flat Iron Building, also known as 72 Ecclestone Street, is a historic building in Prescot, Merseyside. It was built in 1890 to service Prescot's extensive watchmaking industry.
3.9 km · historic building in Prescot, Merseyside, England · Wikipedia - 09Prescot Town Hall
Prescot Town Hall is a municipal building in Warrington Road, Prescot, a town in Merseyside, England. The building is currently used as the offices and meeting place of Prescot Town Council.
3.8 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia - 10Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church, Prescot
Our Lady Immaculate and St Joseph Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Prescot, Merseyside. It was built in 1856-57 by the Society of Jesus, and is now in the Knowsley deanery of the Archdiocese of Liverpool.
3.7 km · grade II listed church in Prescot, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Knowsley
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 13 km · Manchester (MAN), 39 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 91 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Knowsley94 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Knowsley126 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £15–20
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Knowsley126 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £14–18
- 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 Knowsley
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 Knowsley. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Liverpool, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Knowsley
Knowsley is 10 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Prescottown in Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England3.9 km
- CroxtethDistrict of Liverpool3.8 km
- GillmossDistrict of Liverpool3.4 km
- Page Mossarea in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England4 km
- Stockbridge Villagearea in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England1.7 km
- Yew Treeelectoral ward of Liverpool City Council2.7 km