--- title: "Blackpool – what to see, and every way to get there | Mixroutes" description: "How to get to Blackpool from Liverpool, Manchester, Greater Manchester and Leeds, West Yorkshire: every way compared, with today's quickest and its fare.…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/blackpool" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/places/blackpool.md" image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Blackpool_tower_and_illuminations.jpg" --- ![Blackpool](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Blackpool_tower_and_illuminations.jpg) # Blackpool Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. [Plan a trip to Blackpool](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Blackpool) [From Liverpool](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Liverpool&to=Blackpool) ## Every way there - Liverpool → Blackpool 45 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · £8–11 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/liverpool-to-blackpool) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Liverpool&to=Blackpool) - Manchester, Greater Manchester → Blackpool 65 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £8–10 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/manchester-greater-manchester-to-blackpool) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Manchester%2C+Greater+Manchester&to=Blackpool) - Leeds, West Yorkshire → Blackpool 99 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/leeds-west-yorkshire-to-blackpool) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Leeds%2C+West+Yorkshire&to=Blackpool) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. The field note What is in and around Blackpool, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move. [Read the note on Blackpool](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/blackpool) What Blackpool has - Y Scheduled flights Liverpool (LPL), 55 km - Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time - N Ferries no crossing within 25 km - Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band - N Bike and scooter share no share feed known - N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. 53.814°, -3.050° It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately 27 miles (43 km) north of Liverpool and 14 miles (23 km) west of Preston. It is the main settlement in the borough of the same name. Get in ## Getting to Blackpool Blackpool can be reached via the M55 from the M6, the UK's main motorway through the North West of England. Blackpool has many car parks available to visitors, several of which are very close the town's main attractions and promenade. Long distance buses don't run to Blackpool - change in Preston. Stagecoach Bus 61 runs hourly from Preston taking 75 min. See ## Worth seeing 1. Blackpool Tower A Victorian tribute-act to the Eiffel Tower, 518 ft (158 m) high, part of a big leisure complex. 2. St Johns Anglican Completed in 1878 in Early English style. 3. North Pier North Pier was opened in 1863 and is 550 yards (500 m) long. 4. Central Pier This opened in 1868 to target the day-tripper mass-market that North Pier didn't care for, so it was close to the (now vanished) Central Station and has always had more amusements. 5. South Pier When opened in 1893 it was called Victoria Pier. 6. Blackpool Pleasure Beach Do ## Things to do What's on? Check local listings for forthcoming events in Blackpool. Blackpool Sands extend for miles. The area between North and Central Piers can get busy and trash-strewn in summer. Take a donkey ride, ironically if that helps (not Fridays; 50-kg rider weight limit). Eat ## Where to eat "Chippies" are everywhere in Blackpool, but the quality varies enormously. The promenade is one enormous strip of fish & chips and other fast-food places. How locals move ## Getting around Blackpool the local way - Get in Ferries no longer sail from nearby Fleetwood. - Get in The closest ferry routes are from Heysham near Morecambe to Douglas, Isle of Man, and from Liverpool to Dublin and Belfast. From [Wikivoyage: Blackpool](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Blackpool), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09. Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackpool) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Blackpool), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons. --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/places/blackpool, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt