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Lydiate

Lydiate is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England.

Lydiate
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The place

Lydiate is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England. It is located 1.5 miles (2 km) north of Maghull, with which it has a common history. At the 2001 Census the civil parish of Lydiate had a population of 6,672, reducing to 6,308 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Lydiate

5 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 Helen's Church, Sefton Village

    St. Helen's is a parish church of the Church of England in the village of Sefton, Merseyside, England.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed church in Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lydiate Hall

    Lydiate Hall was a 16th-century hall in Lydiate, Merseyside, England. The hall was a black-and-white half-timbered house, and was similar in design to Speke Hall.

    400 m · building in Lydiate, Sefton, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Catherine's Chapel, Lydiate

    St Catherine's Chapel, known locally as Lydiate Abbey, is a ruined chapel located in Lydiate, Merseyside, England. The Chapel is situated on the A5147, adjacent to the Scotch Piper Inn.

    200 m · ruined chapel in Merseyside · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Michael's Church, Aughton

    St Michael's Church is in Church Lane, Aughton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ormskirk, the archdeaconry of Wigan & West Lancashire, and the diocese of Liverpool.

    2.7 km · church in Aughton, West Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Thomas' Church, Lydiate

    St Thomas' Church is in Church Lane, Lydiate, Sefton, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ormskirk, the archdeaconry of Wigan and West Lancashire, and the diocese of Liverpool.

    1 km · grade II listed church in Lydiate, Sefton, Merseyside, 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.

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Getting to Lydiate

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 24 km · Manchester (MAN), 50 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 93 km
Stations
Maghull railway station, 3.8 km · Town Green railway station, 3.7 km · Maghull North railway station, 3.3 km · Altcar and Hillhouse railway station, 2.1 km · Lydiate railway station, 1.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Lydiate
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Lydiate
    97 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Lydiate
    136 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · £16–22
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Lydiate

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 Lydiate. 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

    267 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    287 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    303 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    327 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    336 km

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

Around it

Next door to Lydiate

Lydiate is 14 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Maghulltown and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England2.3 km
  • ArgletonPhantom settlement that appeared on Google Maps and Google Earth3.2 km
  • Seftonvillage in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England3.7 km
  • Aughtonvillage and civil parish within the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England3.2 km
  • Downhollandcivil parish in Lancashire, England on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain1.9 km
  • Luntvillage in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England3.5 km