Shireshead
Shireshead is a hamlet near Forton, Lancashire.
Shireshead is a hamlet near Forton, Lancashire. It includes an Anglican church, St James', which was designed by the Leeds-based architectural firm Kelly & Birchall and built in 1887–90.
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Worth seeing in and around Shireshead
3 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.
- 01St Mark's Church, Dolphinholme
St Mark's Church is in the village of Dolphinholme, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Lancaster and Morecambe, the archdeaconry of Lancaster, and the diocese of Blackburn.
2.7 km · grade II listed church in Ellel, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02St Michael's Church, Cockerham
St Michael & All Angels Church is located to the southwest of the English village of Cockerham, Lancashire. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Lancaster, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and Morecambe, and the diocese of Blackburn.
4 km · church in Cockerham, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St Peter's Church, Scorton
St Peter's Church is in the village of Scorton, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Garstang, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.
2.5 km · grade II listed church in Nether Wyresdale, Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Shireshead
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 69 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 73 km · Manchester (MAN), 74 km
- Stations
- Bay Horse railway station, 2 km
- Liverpool → Shireshead62 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Shireshead85 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–17
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Shireshead70 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £8–10
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No local-transport research exists yet for Shireshead
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 Shireshead. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inBirkenhead and Liverpool have ferries to/from the Isle of Man (Isle of Man Steam Packet), Dublin (P&O Ferries) and Belfast (Stena Line).
- Get inFerries from the Isle of Man and Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland also dock at Heysham near Lancaster.
- Go nextIsle of Man: ferries to Douglas from Heysham and Liverpool.
- Go nextBelfast in Northern Ireland or Dublin in the Republic of Ireland by ferry from Birkenhead and Bootle (Liverpool) respectively.
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Next door to Shireshead
Shireshead is 22 km from Preston, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cockerhamvillage and civil parish in Lancashire, England, UK3.8 km
- Fortonvillage in Wyre, Lancashire, England, UK1.3 km
- Scortonvillage in the Wyre district of Lancashire, England2.3 km
- Nether Wyresdalecivil parish in Lancashire, UK2.3 km
- Dolphinholmevillage in Lancashire, England, UK2.8 km
- Hollins Lanevillage in Lancashire, England, UK400 m