Penketh

Worth seeing in and around Penketh

7 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
   Warrington Transporter Bridge

   The Warrington Transporter Bridge is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England.

   3.2 km · steel bridge · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Gulliver's World Resort

   Gulliver's World is a theme park located in Warrington, England, loosely based on the world of Lilliput from Gulliver's Travels. It consists of the themed areas: Lilliput Land, Land of Oz, Western World, Gully's Cartoon Studios, Smuggler's Wharf, Safari Kingdom, Gully Town and Lost World.

   3.3 km · Children's theme park resort in Warrington, Cheshire. · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Runcorn to Latchford Canal

   The Runcorn to Latchford Canal was a man-made canal that ran from Runcorn, to the Latchford area of Warrington. It connected the Mersey and Irwell Navigation to the River Mersey at Runcorn.

   3.3 km · abandoned and partly infilled canal in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Bewsey Old Hall

   Bewsey Old Hall is a brick-built, three-storey, mainly Jacobean building, incorporating or reusing elements of a former medieval hall on the edge of Sankey Valley Park in Warrington, Cheshire. The estate was home to the Lords of Warrington from the 13th to the 17th century.

   3 km · Grade II* listed building in Burtonwood and Westbrook, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Sankey Valley Park

   Sankey Valley Park is a public park in Warrington, Cheshire. It occupies part of the Sankey Valley and the main park itself covers over 1½ miles between Sankey Bridges in the south and Callands in the north.

   3.2 km · park in Warrington, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
6. 06
   St Alban's Church, Warrington

   St Alban's Church is in Bewsey Street near to the centre of the town of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is an active Roman Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Liverpool.

   4 km · grade II listed church in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Warrington Museum and Art Gallery

   Warrington Museum & Art Gallery is on Bold Street in the Cultural Quarter of Warrington in a Grade II listed building that it shares with the town's Central Library. The Museum and the Library originally opened in 1848 as the first rate-supported library in the UK, before moving to their current premises in 1858.

   4 km · Grade II listed building and museum in Warrington, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

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Getting to Penketh

Airports

Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 14 km · Manchester (MAN), 25 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 84 km

Stations

Warrington Bank Quay railway station, 3.5 km · Sankey railway station, 700 m · Warrington West railway station, 1.4 km · Moore railway station, 3.9 km

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Penketh

  87 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £9–12
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Penketh

  112 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–19
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• Birmingham, West Midlands → Penketh

  113 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £13–17
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