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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.

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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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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-Backford
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Lea-by-Backford
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £12–16
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Lea-by-Backford
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–20
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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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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).

From Wikivoyage: Chester, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    258 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    304 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    334 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    358 km

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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.