Place
Twicket
Twicket was a village cricket match, streamed online on 25 April 2011, with the intention of highlighting the need for fast rural broadband.
The organisers claimed the event to be a world first. The event received widespread media coverage from several news outlets including BBC Radio London, talkSPORT, and Radio New Zealand.
How locals move
Getting around Twicket the local way
- Get inBirkenhead and Liverpool have ferries to/from the Isle of Man (Isle of Man Steam Packet), Dublin (P&O Ferries) and Belfast (Stena Line).
- Get inFerries from the Isle of Man and Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland also dock at Heysham near Lancaster.
- Go nextIsle of Man: ferries to Douglas from Heysham and Liverpool.
- Go nextBelfast in Northern Ireland or Dublin in the Republic of Ireland by ferry from Birkenhead and Bootle (Liverpool) respectively.
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