Simonswood
Simonswood is a civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England.
Simonswood is a civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. At the 2001 census, the population was 130, increasing to 151 by the 2011 census.
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Worth seeing in and around Simonswood
2 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 Chad's Church, Kirkby
St Chad's Church is in Old Hall Lane, Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Huyton, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool.
2.5 km · church in Knowsley, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Simmonswood Hall
Simonswood Hall is a country house in the civil parish of Simonswood in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. It was built in 1687 and thoroughly restored in the 1880s.
200 m · house in Simonswood, West Lancashire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Simonswood
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 19 km · Manchester (MAN), 43 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 90 km
- Stations
- Kirkby railway station, 2.6 km · Maghull railway station, 3.5 km · Headbolt Lane railway station, 1.4 km · Maghull North railway station, 3.1 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Simonswood41 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Simonswood92 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Simonswood129 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £16–21
- 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 Simonswood
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 Simonswood. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Liverpool, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Simonswood
Simonswood is 12 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Kirkbytown in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England2.7 km
- Mellingvillage and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England, UK3.4 km
- Barrow Nookhamlet in Lancashire, England3.1 km
- Waddicararea in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England2.8 km
- Kennessee Greenvillage in Merseyside, England, UK3.5 km