Lea-by-Backford
Lea-by-Backford is a hamlet and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

Lea-by-Backford is a hamlet and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is situated between Chester and Ellesmere Port, west of the A41 trunk road and to the north of the Shropshire Union Canal. Backford is approximately 1.2 mi (2 km) to the east and Mollington is approximately 1.2 mi (2 km) to the south.
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Getting to Lea-by-Backford
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 12 km · Manchester (MAN), 44 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 108 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Lea-by-Backford53 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Lea-by-Backford110 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £12–16
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Lea-by-Backford122 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 Lea-by-Backford
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 Lea-by-Backford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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).
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Next door to Lea-by-Backford
Lea-by-Backford is 19 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.