Woolton
Woolton is a suburb of Liverpool, in Merseyside, England.
Woolton is a suburb of Liverpool, in Merseyside, England. It is an area located southeast of the city and bordered by Allerton, Gateacre, Halewood, and Hunt's Cross. At the 2011 Census, the population was 12,921.
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Worth seeing in and around Woolton
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.
- 01Liverpool 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.
2.6 km · university in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 0220 Forthlin Road
20 Forthlin Road is a National Trust property in Allerton in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is the house in which Paul McCartney lived for several years before he rose to fame with the Beatles, and it is labelled by the National Trust as "the birthplace of the Beatles".
2.2 km · house in which Paul McCartney had lived for several years · Wikipedia - 03All 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.
2.6 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Calderstones Park
Calderstones Park is a public park in the Allerton area of Liverpool, England, about 4 miles south-east of the city centre. The 126 acres park is mainly a family park.
2.1 km · public park in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 05St. Peter's Church
St Peter's Church is in Church Road, Woolton, 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.
400 m · church in Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Sudley House
Sudley House is a historic house in Aigburth, Liverpool, England. Built in 1824 and much modified in the 1880s, it is now a museum and art gallery which contains the collection of George Holt, a shipping-line owner and former resident, in its original setting.
3.7 km · historic house museum · Wikipedia - 07Calderstones House
Calderstones House, Calderstones Park, Liverpool, England, is a 19th-century mansion house which is now at the centre of a public park. The house was built in the Allerton suburb in 1828 for Joseph Need Walker, a lead shot manufacturer.
2.1 km · mansion in Liverpool, England · Wikipedia - 08St Barnabas' Church
St Barnabas' Church is in Smithdown Place, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It stands at the junction of Allerton Road, Smithdown Road, and Penny Lane.
3.7 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church of All Hallows, Allerton
The Church of All Hallows is in Allerton, Liverpool, 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 in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the deanery of Liverpool South – Childwall.
2.7 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Dovedale Baptist Church, Liverpool
Dovedale Baptist Church, is in Dovedale Road, Mossley Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It was an active Baptist church until 2018, and the church building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
3.8 km · church in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Woolton
- Airports
- Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 4 km · Manchester (MAN), 39 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 96 km
- Stations
- Liverpool South Parkway railway station, 2.4 km · Mossley Hill railway station, 3.4 km · Hunts Cross railway station, 1.6 km · Halewood railway station, 2.6 km · West Allerton railway station, 2.9 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Woolton99 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £11–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Woolton124 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £15–20
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Woolton119 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £14–18
- 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 Woolton
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 Woolton. 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 Woolton
Woolton is 9 km from Liverpool, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Halewoodsuburb and civil parish in Merseyside, UK2.3 km
- Childwalldistrict of Liverpool, Merseyside, England2.6 km
- Garstondistrict of Liverpool3.2 km
- Allertondistrict of Liverpool, Merseyside, England2 km
- Mossley Hilldistrict of Liverpool3.6 km
- Hunt's Crossdistrict of Liverpool1.7 km