Ravenhead
Ravenhead is an area of St Helens in the North West of England.
Ravenhead is an area of St Helens in the North West of England. It is bordered by Thatto Heath, Sutton and the Town Centre. The area is thought to take its name from a farm once located nearby, while the 'head' portion of the name represents its location at one of the higher points of the town. In this respect, Ravenhead joins other local placenames such as Burtonhead, Micklehead and Eltonhead.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Ravenhead
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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- 03Holy Cross Church, St Helens
Grade II listed church in St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
1.8 km · Wikipedia - 04All Saints' Church, St Helens
Grade II listed church in St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
3.3 km · Wikipedia - 05Knowsley Road, St Helens
Home ground of St. Helens from 1890 until its closure in 2010
1.3 km · Wikipedia - 06
- 07St Helen's Church, St Helens
Grade II listed church in St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
1.5 km · Wikipedia - 08
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- 10Church of St Mary, Lowe House
Grade II listed church in St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK
1.7 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 Ravenhead
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 14 km · Manchester (MAN), 33 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 86 km
- Stations
- St Helens Junction railway station, 3.6 km · St Helens Central railway station, 1.8 km · Thatto Heath railway station, 900 m · Lea Green railway station, 2.6 km · Prescot railway station, 3.8 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ravenhead88 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ravenhead119 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £15–20
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Ravenhead121 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £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 Ravenhead
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 Ravenhead. 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 Ravenhead
Ravenhead is 15 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- St Helenstown in Merseyside, England, UK1.3 km
- Rainhillan area in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England3.1 km
- Ecclestoncivil parish in St Helens, Merseyside, UK1.9 km
- Windlecivil parish in St Helens, Merseyside, UK3.1 km
- Thatto Heathsuburb in St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK900 m
- Citadel Arts Centrearts and community centre in St Helens, England1.4 km