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Mollington

Mollington is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

Mollington
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The place

Mollington is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is two miles north of the city of Chester, with the A41 Liverpool–Chester trunk road and Shropshire Union Canal to the east and southeast, the A540 Wirral peninsula trunk road to the south and west and the A5117 link road to the north. Nearby settlements include Backford, Blacon, Capenhurst and Saughall.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mollington

10 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
    University of Chester

    The University of Chester is a public university located in Chester, England. The university originated as the first purpose-built teacher training college in the UK. As a university, it now occupies seven campus sites in and around Chester, one in Warrington, and a University Centre in Birkenhead.

    3.3 km · university in Chester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Chester Zoo

    Chester Zoo is a zoo in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family.

    2.6 km · zoological garden at Upton-by-Chester, in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Shotwick Castle

    Shotwick Castle is a Norman medieval fortification near the village of Saughall, Cheshire, England. Construction began in the late 11th century.

    3.5 km · motte-and-bailey castle in Saughall and Shotwick Park, Cheshire West and Chester, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sealand Road

    Sealand Road was the home stadium of Chester City Football Club from 1906 until 1990. Although officially known simply as The Stadium, it was more commonly referred to as Sealand Road.

    3.4 km · sports stadium in Chester, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Holy Trinity Church, Capenhurst

    Holy Trinity Church, Capenhurst is in the village of Capenhurst, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.9 km · Grade II listed church in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    All Saints Church, Great Saughall

    All Saints Church, Great Saughall, is located in Church Road in the civil parish of Saughall and Shotwick Park, formerly Saughall and before that Great Saughall, in the county of Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.

    2.1 km · grade II listed church in Saughall, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Christ Church, Chester

    Christ Church is a Church of England parish church in Somerset Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is in the Archdeaconry of Chester and the Deanery of Chester.

    4 km · grade II listed church in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Northgate Church, Chester

    Northgate Church, Chester, is located in Upper Northgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, England.

    3.9 km · grade II listed church in Chester, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Holy Ascension Church, Upton by Chester

    Holy Ascension Church is in Church Lane, Upton-by-Chester, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the diocese of Chester.

    2.6 km · grade II listed church in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Bartholomew's Church, Sealand

    St Bartholomew's Church, Sealand, is in Sealand, Flintshire, Wales and in the diocese of St Asaph The church is designated as a Grade II listed building.

    3.5 km · grade II listed church in Sealand, Flintshire, Wales, 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 Mollington

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 13 km · Manchester (MAN), 45 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 110 km
Stations
Capenhurst railway station, 4 km · Bache railway station, 2.9 km · Blacon railway station, 2.2 km · Chester Northgate railway station, 3.9 km · Upton-by-Chester railway station, 2.2 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Mollington
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Mollington
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £12–16
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Mollington
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–20
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mollington

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 Mollington. 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

    257 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

    303 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

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

Around it

Next door to Mollington

Mollington is 20 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Chestercity in Cheshire, England3.9 km
  • Capenhurstvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England4 km
  • Cheshire West and Chesterunitary authority area with borough status in England2 km
  • Backfordvillage and civil parish in Cheshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Upton-by-Chestervillage and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, UK2.9 km
  • Lea by Backfordhamlet and civil parish in Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England1.2 km