Old Swan
Worth seeing in and around Old Swan
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.
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- 04Edge Hill railway station
Station serving the district of Edge Hill in Liverpool, England
2.8 km · Wikipedia - 05
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- 10Church of St. Agnes and St. Pancras, Toxteth Park
Church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
3.4 km · 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.
Getting to Old Swan
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 10 km · Manchester (MAN), 42 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 96 km
- Stations
- Mossley Hill railway station, 3.9 km · Wavertree Technology Park railway station, 1.3 km · Broad Green railway station, 1.3 km · Roby railway station, 3.5 km · Knotty Ash railway station, 600 m
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Old Swan45 km · quickest by road, 1h · £4.5–6
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Old Swan99 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Old Swan128 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £15–21
- 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 Old Swan
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 Old Swan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis has ferries from Douglas operated by IOM Steam Packet, with two sailings a day taking three hours.
- Get inThe usual ferry is the fast cat Manannan, which carries vehicles.
- Get inA bus plies from the city centre to meet the ferries.
- Get inFrom Birkenhead, pedestrians and cyclists can catch the Mersey Ferries commuter service every 20 minutes between 7:20AM and 9:40AM, with a journey time of 10 minutes to Liverpool's Pier Head.
- Get inBetween rush hours, the ferries operate a river cruise service which provides an hourly link from Birkenhead to Liverpool.
From Wikivoyage: Liverpool, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Old Swan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Old Swan
Old Swan is 5 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Evertondistrict in Liverpool, in Merseyside, England3.8 km
- CroxtethDistrict of Liverpool3.8 km
- West Derbydistrict of Liverpool, England2.2 km
- Wavertreedistrict of Liverpool, England, UK2.4 km
- Childwalldistrict of Liverpool, Merseyside, England2.8 km
- Mossley Hilldistrict of Liverpool3.9 km