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Whiston

Whiston is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England.

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The place

Whiston is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. It is located 8 miles (10 km) east of Liverpool. The population was 13,629 in 2001, increasing to 14,263 in 2011.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whiston

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
    Dream

    Dream is a sculpture and a piece of public art by Jaume Plensa in Sutton, St Helens, Merseyside. Costing approximately £1.8m, it was funded through The Big Art Project in coordination with the Arts Council England, The Art Fund and Channel 4.

    5 km · sculpture by Jaume Plensa · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Knowsley Safari Park

    Knowsley Safari is a safari park and tourist attraction in Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria.

    3.4 km · zoo in Merseyside, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Childwall

    All Saints' Church, is in Childwall, Liverpool, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is the only medieval church remaining in the Metropolitan borough of Liverpool.

    5.9 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Aloysius Catholic Church

    St Aloysius, Roby, on the outskirts of Liverpool. The church designed by F. X. Velarde and consecrated on 23 April 1885.

    3.7 km · church building in Liverpool, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Prescot Parish Church

    Prescot Parish Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is in the town of Prescot, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is an active Anglican parish church.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed church in Prescot, Knowsley, Merseyside UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Knowsley Road, St Helens

    Knowsley Road was a former rugby league stadium in Eccleston, St Helens, Merseyside. It was the home ground of St.

    4.8 km · home ground of St. Helens from 1890 until its closure in 2010 · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St John the Evangelist

    St John the Evangelist is a Church of England parish church which serves the parish of Ravenhead in St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is one of the over 200 parishes which together form the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool.

    4.2 km · church in Ravenhead, St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Helen's Church, St Helens

    St Helens Minster, formerly known as the Church of St Helen, is an Anglican church located in, St Helens, Merseyside, England. A chapel has been on the site since at least the 16th century.

    6 km · grade II listed church in St Helens, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Stephen's Church, Gateacre

    St Stephen's Church is in Belle Vale Road, Gateacre, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Liverpool South Childwall, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool.

    4.8 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Loyola Hall

    Rainhill Hall or Loyola Hall is a Grade II listed country house built in the 19th century in Rainhill, Merseyside, England, by Bartholomew Bretherton. It is situated on the Warrington Road, next to St Bartholomew's Church.

    3.1 km · church in Rainhill, St Helens, Merseyside, 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.

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Getting to Whiston

Airports
Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 9 km · Manchester (MAN), 35 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 90 km
Stations
Widnes railway station, 5.7 km · Roby railway station, 3.9 km · Prescot railway station, 1.2 km · Thatto Heath railway station, 3.7 km · Eccleston Park railway station, 2.3 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Whiston
    92 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Whiston
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £15–19
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Whiston
    120 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whiston

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe town centre is quickly reachable by taking the A568 bypass south (Watkinson Way) and turning west onto A562 (Fiddler's Ferry Road).

From Wikivoyage: Widnes, 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

    279 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    284 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    320 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    320 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    345 km

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

Around it

Next door to Whiston

Whiston is 12 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • St Helenstown in Merseyside, England, UK5.7 km
  • Knowsleymetropolitan borough of Merseyside, England4.5 km
  • Prescottown in Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England1.5 km
  • Huytontown in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, in Merseyside, England3 km
  • Rainhillan area in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England2.4 km
  • Ecclestoncivil parish in St Helens, Merseyside, UK4.8 km