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Wavertree

Wavertree is a district and suburb of Liverpool, in the county of Merseyside, England.

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The place

Wavertree is a district and suburb of Liverpool, in the county of Merseyside, England. It is a ward of Liverpool City Council and its population at the 2011 census was 14,772. Located to the south and east of the city centre, it is bordered by various districts and suburbs such as Allerton, Edge Hill, Fairfield, Mossley Hill, Old Swan and Toxteth.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wavertree

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
    University of Liverpool

    The University of Liverpool is a public research university in Liverpool, England. Founded in 1881 as University College Liverpool and affiliated with Victoria University in 1884, it received a royal charter from King Edward VII in 1903, thereby attaining the authority to award degrees independently.

    2.4 km · university in Liverpool, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    The Cavern Club

    The Cavern Club is a music venue on Mathew Street, Liverpool, England. The Cavern Club opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club, later becoming a centre of the rock and roll scene in Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

    3.7 km · nightclub in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Liverpool Cathedral

    Liverpool Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Liverpool, England. It is the seat of the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool and is the mother church of the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool.

    2.6 km · cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

    Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, officially known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King and locally nicknamed "Paddy's Wigwam" or "The Mersey Funnel", is the seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. The Grade I Metropolitan Cathedral is one of Liverpool's many listed buildings.

    2.5 km · Catholic cathedral. seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool in England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Echo Arena Liverpool

    Liverpool Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the city centre of Liverpool, England. The venue hosts live music, comedy performances and sporting events, and forms part of Liverpool event campus ACC Liverpool – an interconnected arena, exhibition and convention centre.

    3.8 km · arena in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Walker Art Gallery

    The Walker Art Gallery is a Grade II* listed art gallery in Liverpool which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group.

    3.3 km · art museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Liverpool John Moores University

    Liverpool John Moores University is a public research university in the city of Liverpool, United Kingdom. The university can trace its origins to the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts, established in 1823.

    2.5 km · university in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool

    The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Liverpool is a Latin Church archdiocese of the Catholic Church that covers the Isle of Man and part of North West England. The episcopal see is Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.

    2.4 km · archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Liverpool Hope University

    Liverpool Hope University is a public university with campuses in Liverpool, England. ‌The university grew out of three teacher training colleges: Saint Katharine's College, Notre Dame College and Christ's College.

    2.9 km · university in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Al-Rahma Mosque

    The Al-Rahma Mosque is a Sunni mosque located on Hatherley Street in Toxteth, Liverpool, England, in the United Kingdom. The mosque can accommodate between 2,000 and 2,500 worshippers and serves as the main place of worship and focus point for Liverpool's Muslim population, which numbered over 25,000 in the 2021 United Kingdom census.

    1.9 km · mosque in United Kingdom · 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 Wavertree

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 9 km · Manchester (MAN), 44 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 99 km
Stations
Liverpool Lime Street railway station, 3.1 km · Liverpool Central railway station, 3.1 km · Moorfields railway station, 3.9 km · Mossley Hill railway station, 2.5 km · Wavertree Technology Park railway station, 1.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wavertree
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £4.5–6
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Wavertree
    101 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £10–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wavertree
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 39m · £15–21
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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 Wavertree

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    274 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    281 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    317 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    321 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    341 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wavertree

Wavertree is 3 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Liverpoolcity in Merseyside, England, United Kingdom4 km
  • Evertondistrict in Liverpool, in Merseyside, England3.2 km
  • ChinatownArea of Liverpool city centre2.9 km
  • Dingledistrict of Liverpool, Merseyside, England2.9 km
  • Toxtethdistrict of Liverpool, Merseyside, England2.7 km
  • Childwalldistrict of Liverpool, Merseyside, England3.5 km