Little Stanney
Little Stanney is a suburban village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.
Little Stanney is a suburban village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is located on the Wirral Peninsula between Chester and Ellesmere Port.
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Worth seeing in and around Little Stanney
9 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.
- 01Chester Zoo
Chester Zoo is a zoo in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family.
3.8 km · zoological garden at Upton-by-Chester, in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Shropshire Union Canal
The Shropshire Union Canal, sometimes nicknamed the "Shroppie", is a navigable canal in England. It is the modern name for a part of the Shropshire Union Railways and Canal Company network.
2.5 km · canal in North West England · Wikipedia - 03Ellesmere Canal
The Ellesmere Canal was a waterway in England and Wales that was planned to carry boat traffic between the rivers Mersey and Severn. The proposal would have created a link between the Port of Liverpool and the mineral industries in north east Wales and the manufacturing centres in the West Midlands.
2.5 km · canal in the United Kingdom, now known as the Llangollen Cana · Wikipedia - 04Ellesmere Port Lighthouse
Ellesmere Port Dock is a dock in Britain, situated on the Manchester Ship Canal, in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.
3 km · lighthouse in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Mary's Church, Thornton-le-Moors
St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the small village of Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and it is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
3.2 km · church in Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St Oswald's Church, Backford
St Oswald's Church is in the village of Backford, to the northwest of Chester, Cheshire, England, close to the A41 road and adjoining Backford Hall. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
2.7 km · church in Backford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07St Lawrence's Church, Stoak
St Lawrence's Church is in the village of Stoak, Cheshire, England,. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
1.6 km · church in Stoak, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Chester Zoo monorail
The Chester Zoo monorail was an internal transport system at Chester Zoo that operated from 1991 to 2019.
3.8 km · transport system at Chester Zoo in England · Wikipedia - 09Ellesmere Port Council Offices
Ellesmere Port Council Offices is a municipal building in Civic Way in Ellesmere Port, a town in Cheshire, in England. The building served as the headquarters of Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council but is now disused.
2.2 km · municipal building in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Little Stanney
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 9 km · Manchester (MAN), 41 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 105 km
- Stations
- Ellesmere Port, 2.1 km · Ellesmere Port railway station, 2.4 km · Capenhurst railway station, 3.7 km · Stanlow and Thornton railway station, 3.5 km · Overpool railway station, 3.6 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Little Stanney49 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £6–8
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Little Stanney106 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £11–15
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Little Stanney121 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £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 Little Stanney
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 Stanney. 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 Little Stanney
Little Stanney is 17 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Thornton-le-Moorsvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, UK3.2 km
- Backfordvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK2.4 km
- Wervinvillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK2.6 km
- Lea by Backfordhamlet and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England3.4 km
- Stoakvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, United Kingdom1.5 km
- Croughtonvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, UK2 km