Skip to content
Mixroutes
Village in Cheshire, England · United Kingdom

Wervin

Wervin is a small village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England.

The place

Wervin is a small village and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire West and Chester and the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England. It is situated between Chester and Ellesmere Port, near the Shropshire Union Canal and the M53 motorway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wervin

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
    Chester Zoo

    Chester Zoo is a zoo in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family.

    2 km · zoological garden at Upton-by-Chester, in Cheshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holy Ascension Church, Upton by Chester

    Holy Ascension Church is in Church Lane, Upton-by-Chester, Chester, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the diocese of Chester.

    3.2 km · grade II listed church in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Columba's Church, Chester

    St Columba's is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Newton, Chester. It was built from 1964 to 1965.

    3.4 km · church in Chester, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Oswald's Church, Backford

    St Oswald's Church is in the village of Backford, to the northwest of Chester, Cheshire, England, close to the A41 road and adjoining Backford Hall. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

    2.5 km · church in Backford, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church, Thornton-le-Moors

    St Mary's Church is a redundant Anglican church in the small village of Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and it is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    3.2 km · church in Thornton-le-Moors, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Chester Zoo monorail

    The Chester Zoo monorail was an internal transport system at Chester Zoo that operated from 1991 to 2019.

    1.9 km · transport system at Chester Zoo in England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hoole Hall

    Hoole Hall is a former country house located to the north of Chester, Cheshire, England. It originated as a small house in about 1760, built for the Rev John Baldwin.

    3.9 km · grade II listed English country house in Mickle Trafford and District, Cheshire West and Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Oakfield Manor

    Oakfield Manor was originally a country house in Upton-by-Chester, near Chester, Cheshire, England. Since the 1930s it has been the headquarters of Chester Zoo.

    2 km · country house in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Lawrence's Church, Stoak

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

    1.4 km · church in Stoak, Cheshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    St Peter's Church, Plemstall

    St Peter's Church, Plemstall stands in an isolated position at the end of a country lane near the village of Mickle Trafford, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed church in Plemstall, 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 Wervin

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 10 km · Manchester (MAN), 41 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 106 km
Stations
Cheshire Oaks Arena, 3.3 km · Blue Planet Aquarium, 2.7 km · Upton-by-Chester railway station, 3.5 km · Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet, 2.9 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wervin
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £6–8
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Wervin
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £12–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wervin
    119 km · quickest by road, 3h 2m · £13–18
  • 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 Wervin

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inManchester – Manchester Airport, Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Oxford Road every 30 minutes, taking just over an hour via Warrington and Runcorn, and continuing along the Welsh coast to Holyhead (for Dublin ferries).

From Wikivoyage: Chester, 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

    260 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    298 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    303 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    335 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    358 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wervin

Wervin is 20 km from Birkenhead, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.