Pier Head
The Pier Head is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England.
The Pier Head is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England. It was part of the former Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2004, but revoked in 2021. As well as a collection of landmark buildings, recreational open space, and a number of memorials, the Pier Head was the landing site for passenger ships travelling to and from the city.
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Worth seeing in and around Pier Head
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.
- 01Anfield
Anfield is a football stadium in the area of Anfield, Liverpool, England, which has been the home of Liverpool Football Club since their formation in 1892. The stadium has a seating capacity of 61,276, making it the fifth-largest football stadium in England.
3.7 km · football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 02University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is a public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool and affiliated with Victoria University in 1884, it received a royal charter from King Edward VII in 1903, thereby attaining the authority to award degrees independently.
1.9 km · university in Liverpool, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Hill Dickinson Stadium
Hill Dickinson Stadium, known as Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium or Everton Stadium during construction and renamed for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in Vauxhall, Liverpool, England. It is the home ground of Premier League club Everton, replacing Goodison Park.
2.3 km · football stadium in Liverpool, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04The Cavern Club
The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England. The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
500 m · nightclub in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 05Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Liverpool, England. It is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool and is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool.
1.7 km · cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, officially known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King and locally nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam" or "The Mersey Funnel", is the seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. The Grade I Metropolitan Cathedral is one of Liverpool's many listed buildings.
1.7 km · Catholic cathedral. seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool in England · Wikipedia - 07Echo Arena Liverpool
Liverpool Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the city centre of Liverpool, England. The venue hosts live music, comedy performances and sporting events, and forms part of Liverpool event campus ACC Liverpool – an interconnected arena, exhibition and convention centre.
900 m · arena in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery is a Grade II* listed art gallery in Liverpool which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group.
1.2 km · art museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool John Moores University is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, United Kingdom. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, established in 1823.
1.7 km · university in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 10Stanley Park Stadium
Stanley Park was a proposed football stadium in Stanley Park, Liverpool. If built, it would have become home to the Liverpool Football Club.
4 km · stadium · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pier Head
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 12 km · Manchester (MAN), 48 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 102 km
- Stations
- Liverpool Lime Street railway station, 1.2 km · Port of Liverpool, 100 m · Liverpool Central railway station, 1 km · Birkenhead Central railway station, 2.4 km · Birkenhead Hamilton Square railway station, 1.7 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Pier Head73 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £9–11
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Pier Head22 km · quickest by road, 49 min · £2.5–3
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Pier Head118 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
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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 Pier Head
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 Pier Head. 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.
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Next door to Pier Head
Pier Head is 1 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Liverpoolcity in Merseyside, England, United Kingdom300 m
- Birkenheadtown in Merseyside, England2.8 km
- Wirralmetropolitan borough of Merseyside, in North West England1.4 km
- Evertondistrict in Liverpool, in Merseyside, England2.5 km
- ChinatownArea of Liverpool city centre1.3 km
- Dingledistrict of Liverpool, Merseyside, England3.8 km