Skip to content
Mixroutes
Suburb of Warrington in Cheshire, England · United Kingdom

Stockton Heath

Stockton Heath is a civil parish and suburb of Warrington, in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England.

Stockton Heath
Stockton Heath · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Stockton Heath is a civil parish and suburb of Warrington, in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England. It is located to the north of the Bridgewater Canal and to the south of the Manchester Ship Canal, which divides Stockton Heath from Latchford and north Warrington. It has a total resident population of 6,396.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stockton Heath

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.

  1. 01
    Manchester Ship Canal

    The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile-long inland waterway in North West England that links Manchester to the Irish Sea. Beginning in the Mersey estuary at Eastham, near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, it generally follows the original routes of the rivers Mersey and Irwell through the historic counties of Cheshire and Lancashire before terminating to the east of Salford Quays near Pomona Docks and a junction with the Bridgewater Canal where it meets the Irwell.

    1.4 km · UK canal linking Manchester to the coast · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Warrington Transporter Bridge

    The Warrington Transporter Bridge is a structural steel transporter bridge across the River Mersey in Warrington, Cheshire, England.

    2.2 km · steel bridge · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Halliwell Jones Stadium

    Halliwell Jones Stadium is a rugby league stadium in Warrington, England, which is the home ground of the Warrington Wolves. It has also staged Challenge Cup semi-finals, the European Nations Final, the National League Grand Finals' Day, two games of the 2013 Rugby League World Cup and four games of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup.

    2.7 km · rugby league stadium in Warrington, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Elphin's Church, Warrington

    St Elphin's Church is the parish church of the town of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    2 km · Grade II* listed church in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Runcorn to Latchford Canal

    The Runcorn to Latchford Canal was a man-made canal that ran from Runcorn, to the Latchford area of Warrington. It connected the Mersey and Irwell Navigation to the River Mersey at Runcorn.

    2.3 km · abandoned and partly infilled canal in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St John the Evangelist's Church, Warrington

    St John the Evangelist's Church is in Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England. It was built as a private estate church towards the end of the 19th century but is now an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.

    2.1 km · Grade II* listed church in Higher Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Matthew's Church, Stretton

    St Matthew's Church is in the village of Stretton, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.7 km · grade II listed church in the Borough of Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    All Saints Church, Thelwall

    All Saints Church is in the village of Thelwall, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.5 km · grade II listed church in Thelwall, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St.Oswald's Church, Padgate

    St Oswald's Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Padgate suburb of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The parish was founded by Benedictine monks from Ampleforth Abbey, and it is now served by clergy from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool.

    3.4 km · church in United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Cross Church, Appleton Thorn

    St Cross Church is in the village of Appleton Thorn, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.

    3.4 km · Grade II listed church in Cheshire, England, UK · 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.

Go there

Getting to Stockton Heath

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 18 km · Manchester (MAN), 20 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 82 km
Stations
Warrington Bank Quay railway station, 2.1 km · Warrington Central railway station, 2.3 km · Padgate railway station, 3.9 km · Warrington Bus Interchange, 2.2 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Stockton Heath
    83 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Stockton Heath
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Stockton Heath
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stockton Heath

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 Stockton Heath. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFrom Manchester Airport a direct train runs hourly, taking 50 min via Manchester city centre and Newton-le-Willows, and continues to Runcorn, Chester, and along the north Welsh coast to Llandudno Junction, for Holyhead and ferries to Ireland.

From Wikivoyage: Warrington, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    283 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    295 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    311 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    331 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    356 km

If you know how people move in Stockton Heath – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Stockton Heath

Stockton Heath is 26 km from Manchester, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Warringtontown in Cheshire, England2.2 km
  • Appleton Thornvillage in Warrington, Cheshire, UK3.4 km
  • Strettonvillage and civil parish in Warrington, Cheshire, UK3.9 km
  • Grappenhallvillage in Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Thelwallvillage in Warrington, Cheshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Latchfordvillage in Cheshire, England, UK1.2 km