Parkgate, Cheshire
Parkgate is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, England.

Parkgate is a village on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It is part of the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester in the county of Cheshire. Parkgate lies on the banks of the Dee Estuary, abutting 39 square miles (100 km2) of salt marsh. Part of the civil parish of Neston, Parkgate also forms part of the Neston built-up area, as defined by the Office for National Statistics. The Parkgate electoral ward in Cheshire West and Chester had a population of 4,972 at the 2021 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Parkgate, Cheshire
8 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.
- 01Ness Botanic Gardens
Ness Botanic Gardens are at Ness, Cheshire in the Wirral Peninsula. This is near the cities of Liverpool and Chester and close to the English-Welsh border.
3.8 km · owned by the University of Liverpool and located on the Wirral Peninsula, England · Wikipedia - 02All Saints Church, Thornton Hough
All Saints Church is in Raby Road, Thornton Hough, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Deanery of Wirral, South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
3.8 km · church in Thornton Hough, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Mary's and St Helen's Church, Neston
St Mary and St Helen Church is in the town of Neston, 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 Neston, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04St Peter's Church, Heswall
St Peter's Church is in the town of Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
3.2 km · Grade II* listed church in Wirral, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Thomas' Church, Parkgate
St Thomas' Church is in School Lane, Parkgate, Cheshire, England. It is an Anglican chapel of ease in the parish of St Mary and St Helen, Neston, the deanery of Wirral South, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the diocese of Chester.
100 m · grade II listed church in Neston, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Neston Town Hall
Neston Town Hall is a municipal building on High Street, Neston, Cheshire, England. The structure accommodates the offices and the meeting place of Neston Town Council.
1.5 km · town hall in Neston, Cheshire West & Chester, UK · Wikipedia - 07Hinderton Hall
Hinderton Hall is a country house to the northeast of Neston, Cheshire, England.
2.8 km · grade II listed English country house in Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08St George's Church, Thornton Hough
St George's Church is in Manor Road, Thornton Hough, Wirral, Merseyside, England. Formerly home to a congregation of the United Reformed Church, the church closed in July 2021 and the building is now privately owned.
3.8 km · Grade II* listed church in Wirral, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Parkgate, Cheshire
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 16 km · Manchester (MAN), 54 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 113 km
- Stations
- Neston railway station, 1.5 km · Heswall railway station, 3.9 km · Neston South railway station, 2.1 km · Heswall bus station, 3.7 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Parkgate, Cheshire10 km · quickest by road, 31 min · £1–1.5
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Parkgate, Cheshire47 km · quickest by road, 59 min · £5–7
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Parkgate, Cheshire94 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £12–15
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No local-transport research exists yet for Parkgate, Cheshire
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 Parkgate, Cheshire. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextChester Belfast, via the ro-ro Stena Lines MS Norbay ferry terminal in Twelve Quays, Birkenhead.
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Next door to Parkgate, Cheshire
Parkgate, Cheshire is 12 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Nestontown and civil parish in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester, England1.6 km
- Heswalltown in Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England3.7 km
- Nessvillage in Cheshire, United Kingdom3.5 km
- Little Nestonvillage in Cheshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Gaytonvillage in Merseyside, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Rabyvillage in Merseyside, UK3.6 km