Places to explore near Liverpool

The longest single canal in Britain, crossing the Pennines by Bingley's Five Rise Locks and the moors above Burnley.

0.4 km SW · spans 5 counties

Frederick Gibberd's round 1960s Catholic cathedral, known locally as Paddy's Wigwam, lit by a lantern tower of coloured glass.

1.6 km E

Giles Gilbert Scott's red sandstone giant, built between 1904 and 1978 and the largest cathedral in Britain.

1.7 km SE

The world's first publicly funded park, by Joseph Paxton, inspiration for Central Park.

3.8 km SW

Liverpool's largest Victorian park, laid out in 1872 by a French designer.

4.5 km SE

Grand gallery at the heart of Port Sunlight, built by Lord Leverhulme for his collection of Pre-Raphaelites, Wedgwood and fine furniture.

5.9 km S

Garden village built by soap magnate William Lever for his workers, 800 Arts-and-Crafts houses around greens and the Lady Lever Art Gallery.

5.9 km S · Merseyside

A hundred cast-iron Antony Gormley figures planted along two miles of Crosby beach, all facing the sea and drowning twice a day.

7.9 km NW

The ordinary Liverpool semi where John Lennon grew up, kept as it was when his Aunt Mimi ran the house

8.1 km SE

Half-timbered Tudor manor with knot garden.

11.1 km SE

A country park in Cheshire.

12.2 km SW

Wooded National Trust hill above Caldy with a sandstone beacon, looking out over the Dee estuary to the Welsh mountains.

12.5 km W

Large saltwater lake on the Dee front at West Kirby, busy with sailing and paddleboards and ringed by a popular promenade.

13.1 km W

Wirral seaside town with a marine lake for sailing and the low-tide walk out to the Hilbre Islands.

13.4 km W · Merseyside

Old sea-wall promenade at Parkgate overlooking a huge tract of Dee salt marsh, famous for birds of prey and winter high-tide spectacles.

13.6 km SW

Former Dee port turned quiet promenade village, its old sea wall now looking over vast salt marshes and famous for shrimps and ice cream.

13.7 km SW · Cheshire

Sand dunes, reed beds and red sandstone at the north-west tip of the Wirral near Hoylake, a fine spot for birds and sunsets.

14 km W

University of Liverpool's 64-acre botanic gardens above the Dee, founded in 1898 by plant-hunter Arthur Bulley, strong on rhododendrons and rock plants.

15.5 km S

Three red-sandstone tidal islands off West Kirby, walked to across the sands at low tide, with grey seals and wading birds

15.7 km W

Pretty Wirral village of thatched and sandstone cottages near the Dee, with an old church and hilltop views.

16.7 km S · Cheshire

Dunes and pinewoods with red squirrels.

17.3 km NW · Merseyside

Pinewoods, tall dunes and a wide beach on the coast north of Liverpool, home to red squirrels and ancient footprints uncovered by the tide

18.5 km NW

Walk the outline of a whole nation — 870 miles of cliff, estuary and beach from Chepstow round to Queensferry.

18.8 km SW · spans 16 counties

Beached 1950s passenger steamer at Mostyn, its hull covered in large-scale street-art murals.

19.7 km SW

Late-medieval holy well and chapel at Holywell, a pilgrimage site since at least 1115 where visitors still bathe in the spring water.

21.1 km SW

Wooded sandstone hilltop above Frodsham looking out over the Mersey estuary, Liverpool and the Cheshire plain.

21.9 km SE

160 acres of woodland and parkland at Connah's Quay with a brook, waterfall and the ruins of Ewloe Castle.

22.7 km S

Broad sandy beach backed by the Gronant and Talacre dunes at the mouth of the Dee, an SSSI known for natterjack toads.

23.2 km W

Wetland centre with wintering swans and geese.

24.6 km N

Red-sandstone cathedral founded as a Benedictine abbey in 1092, with fine medieval choir stalls, a cloister and a tower you can climb.

25 km S

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

0.4 km SW · spans 24 counties

A National Trust place in Merseyside.

1.5 km SE

A botanic garden that moved here in 1836 with Liverpool's original plants and trees.

3.3 km E

One of Joseph Paxton's first parks, laid out in 1842 with a serpentine lake.

3.4 km SE

Edward Kemp's park of 1870, with sweeping terraces and the domed Isla Gladstone Conservatory.

3.5 km NE

A Victorian cemetery by Edward Kemp, with a Gothic catacomb and three chapels.

4 km NE

Birkenhead's first cemetery, laid out by Edward Kemp in 1864 above the Mersey.

5 km W