Prescot
Prescot is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England.
Prescot is a town and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It lies about 8 miles (13 km) to the east of Liverpool city centre. At the 2001 Census, the civil parish population was 11,184. The population of the larger Prescot East and West wards at the 2011 census totalled 14,139. Prescot marks the beginning of the A58 road which runs through to Wetherby, near Leeds in West Yorkshire. The town is served by Prescot railway station and Eccleston Park railway station in neighbouring Eccleston.
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Worth seeing in and around Prescot
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.
- 01BrewDog Stadium
BrewDog Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in St Helens, Merseyside, England. Previously known as the Totally Wicked Stadium, between 2017 and 2025, and as Langtree Park between 2012 and 2017, it has a capacity of over 18,000 and is the home ground of rugby league club St Helens R.F.C. and football club Liverpool F.C. Women.
5.6 km · rugby league stadium in St Helens, Merseyside, UK · Wikipedia - 02Dream
Dream is a sculpture and a piece of public art by Jaume Plensa in Sutton, St Helens, Merseyside. Costing approximately £1.8m, it was funded through The Big Art Project in coordination with the Arts Council England, The Art Fund and Channel 4.
6 km · sculpture by Jaume Plensa · Wikipedia - 03Croxteth Hall
Croxteth Hall is a country estate and Grade II* listed building in the West Derby suburb of Liverpool, England. It is the former country estate and ancestral home of the Molyneux family, the Earls of Sefton.
5.8 km · country house in Croxteth, Liverpool, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Knowsley Safari Park
Knowsley Safari is a safari park and tourist attraction in Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria.
1.5 km · zoo in Merseyside, England · Wikipedia - 05St Stephen's Church, Gateacre
St Stephen's Church is in Belle Vale Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Liverpool South Childwall, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool.
5.7 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St. Aloysius Catholic Church
St Aloysius, Roby, on the outskirts of Liverpool. The church designed by F. X. Velarde and consecrated on 23 April 1885.
3.3 km · church building in Liverpool, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 07Loyola Hall
Rainhill Hall or Loyola Hall is a Grade II listed country house built in the 19th century in Rainhill, Merseyside, England, by Bartholomew Bretherton. It is situated on the Warrington Road, next to St Bartholomew's Church.
4.2 km · church in Rainhill, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Holy Cross Church, St Helens
Holy Cross and St Helen Church is a Roman Catholic church in St Helens, Merseyside. The church was built in 1860 by the Society of Jesus.
5.7 km · grade II listed church in St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Prescot Parish Church
Prescot Parish Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is in the town of Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church.
0 m · Grade I listed church in Prescot, Knowsley, Merseyside UK · Wikipedia - 10St Mary's Church, Knowsley
St Mary's Church is in Knowsley Lane, Knowsley Village, Merseyside, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.
4.3 km · grade II listed church in Knowsley, Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Prescot
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 11 km · Manchester (MAN), 36 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 90 km
- Stations
- Roby railway station, 3.9 km · Whiston railway station, 1.8 km · Rainhill railway station, 2.9 km · Prescot railway station, 700 m · Eccleston Park railway station, 1.7 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Prescot92 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · £9–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Prescot122 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £15–20
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Prescot121 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £13–18
- 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 Prescot
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 Prescot. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe town centre is quickly reachable by taking the A568 bypass south (Watkinson Way) and turning west onto A562 (Fiddler's Ferry Road).
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Next door to Prescot
Prescot is 12 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- St Helenstown in Merseyside, England, UK4.9 km
- Knowsleymetropolitan borough of Merseyside, England3.2 km
- Whistonvillage and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, UK1.8 km
- Huytontown in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England3.2 km
- Rainhillan area in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England3.2 km
- Ecclestoncivil parish in St Helens, Merseyside, UK3.5 km