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Neston
Town and civil parish in Cheshire, England

Neston

Neston is a market town and civil parish on the Wirral Peninsula, England.

It is part of the authority of Cheshire West and Chester within the county of Cheshire. Its built-up area includes the nearby villages of Parkgate to the north-west, and Little Neston and Ness to the south according to the Office for National Statistics. At the 2021 census, the parish population was 15,392 whilst that of the immediate built-up area was 14,960.

Get in

Getting to Neston

Turn off the A540 at the B5134 and B5136 junctions. The A540 road links Neston to Heswall and West Kirby to the north, and Cheshire, Chester and North Wales to the south. Neston is also close to the M53 and M56 motorways, giving it access to Liverpool, Manchester, and the larger M6 motorway.

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    Neston
See

Worth seeing

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    Hadlow Road
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    Ness Botanic Gardens

    Ness (about an hour's walk from Neston Station).

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    St Mary's and St Helen's Church

    Church dating from the 1170s rebuilt by J.

Eat

Where to eat

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    Nicholls Ice Cream

    The Parade, Parkgate,.

How locals move

Getting around Neston the local way

  • Go nextChester Belfast, via the ro-ro Stena Lines MS Norbay ferry terminal in Twelve Quays, Birkenhead.

From Wikivoyage: Wirral, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. That article was last edited 2023-01, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.

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