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Medlar-with-Wesham

Medlar-with-Wesham is a civil parish and an electoral ward on the Fylde in Lancashire, England, which contains the town of Wesham and the hamlet of Medlar.

The place

Medlar-with-Wesham is a civil parish and an electoral ward on the Fylde in Lancashire, England, which contains the town of Wesham and the hamlet of Medlar. It lies within the Borough of Fylde, and had a population of 3,245 in 1,294 households recorded in the 2001 census rising to 3,584 in 1,511 households, at the 2021 census. Wesham is adjacent to the town of Kirkham.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Medlar-with-Wesham

4 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 John the Evangelist's Church, Kirkham

    St John the Evangelist's Church is in Ribby Road, Kirkham, Lancashire, England. It is an active Roman Catholic parish church in the diocese of Lancaster.

    1 km · grade II listed church in Kirkham, Fylde, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Michael's Church, Weeton

    St Michael's Church is an Anglican church in the village of Weeton, Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn.

    3.5 km · grade II listed church in Weeton-with-Preese, Fylde, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Michael's Church, Kirkham

    St Michael's Church is in the town of Kirkham, Lancashire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    1.2 km · church in Kirkham, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Nicholas' Church, Wrea Green

    St Nicholas Church is in the village of Wrea Green, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Kirkham, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.

    2.4 km · grade II listed church in Ribby-with-Wrea, Fylde, 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.

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Getting to Medlar-with-Wesham

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 51 km · Manchester (MAN), 63 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 81 km
Stations
Kirkham and Wesham railway station, 400 m · Wrea Green railway station, 2.5 km
  • Liverpool → Medlar-with-Wesham
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £7–9
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Medlar-with-Wesham
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £7–9
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Medlar-with-Wesham
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Medlar-with-Wesham

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 Medlar-with-Wesham. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries no longer sail from nearby Fleetwood.
  • Get inThe closest ferry routes are from Heysham near Morecambe to Douglas, Isle of Man, and from Liverpool to Dublin and Belfast.

From Wikivoyage: Blackpool, 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
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    246 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    282 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    307 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    315 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    361 km

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

Around it

Next door to Medlar-with-Wesham

Medlar-with-Wesham is 12 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.