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Little Altcar

Little Altcar is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton on Merseyside, within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire and on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain of England.

Little Altcar
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The place

Little Altcar is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton on Merseyside, within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire and on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain of England. The village forms part of the built-up area of Formby. It had a population of 892 in the 2001 Census, increasing to 910 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Little Altcar

6 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
    St Luke's Church, Formby

    St Luke's Church is in St Luke's Church Road, Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. The original chapel on the site was destroyed by a sandstorm in 1739.

    2.3 km · grade II listed church in Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Formby Lighthouse

    Formby Lighthouse was a lighthouse station in Little Altcar, Merseyside. The lighthouse was converted in 1834 from a structure originally built in 1719.

    1.2 km · British Lighthouse · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Holy Family Adjoining Service Wing of Ince Blundell Hall

    The Church of the Holy Family is attached to the service wing of Ince Blundell Hall, near the village of Ince Blundell, Sefton, Merseyside, England. It is both an estate church and an active Roman Catholic parish church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.

    3.8 km · church in Ince Blundell, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Peter's Church, Formby

    St Peter's Church is in Green Lane, Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. It was built in 1746 to replace a chapel on another site that had been destroyed in a storm.

    2.3 km · grade II listed church in Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Formby Hall

    Formby Hall is located to the north-east of Formby in the English metropolitan county of Merseyside, in secluded woodland adjoining the Formby Hall Golf and Country Club. The present house, built for William Formby, dates back to 1523 but it is believed that the Formby family has occupied the site since the 12th century.

    3.8 km · house in Formby, Sefton, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Michael and All Angels Church, Altcar

    St Michael and All Angels Church stands to the west of the village of Great Altcar, West Lancashire, England. The church is timber-framed and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    1.8 km · church in Great Altcar, West Lancashire, England,UK · 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 Little Altcar

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 27 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 98 km
Stations
Royal Air Force Station Woodvale, 4 km · Freshfield railway station, 2.5 km · Hightown railway station, 2.4 km · Formby railway station, 1.4 km · Altcar Rifle Range railway station, 1.7 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Little Altcar
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Little Altcar
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–16
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Little Altcar
    143 km · quickest by road, 3h 5m · £17–23
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Little Altcar

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 Little Altcar. 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
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    263 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    285 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    299 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    323 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    340 km

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

Around it

Next door to Little Altcar

Little Altcar is 16 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Formbytown and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England1.6 km
  • Great Altcarvillage and civil parish in West Lancashire, England2.2 km
  • Hightownvillage and civil parish in Merseyside, UK2.4 km
  • Ince Blundellvillage in Merseyside, England3.2 km
  • Freshfieldsuburb in Formby, Merseyside, England, UK2.1 km
  • Carr Houseshamlet in Merseyside, England, UK3.3 km