Village in Cheshire, England

Alvanley

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

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Every way there

Leeds, West Yorkshire → Alvanley
17 km · quickest by road, 40 min · £2.5–3
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Alvanley
112 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £14–18
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Alvanley
104 km · quickest by road, 2h 26m · £12–16
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The field note

What is in and around Alvanley, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Alvanley has

YScheduled flightsLiverpool (LPL), 10 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerries12 Quays Terminal, 23 km, Stena Line Ltd; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Runcorn, 9 km.

53.261°, -2.756°

The village is on the B5393 road and near junction 14 of the M56 motorway. According to the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 472.

How locals move

Getting around Alvanley the local way

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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Rept0n1x (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.