Places to explore near Spital StationSpital

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

1.7 km N · Merseyside

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

1.8 km N

A country park in Cheshire.

5.3 km S

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

5.3 km N · spans 5 counties

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

6.1 km NE

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

6.5 km N

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

6.9 km NW

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

7.4 km N

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

7.6 km SW · Cheshire

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

7.7 km SW

Half-timbered Tudor manor with knot garden.

8.1 km E

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.

8.2 km SW

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

8.5 km NE

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

9.2 km S · Cheshire

A country park in Merseyside.

2.2 km E

The Victorian seaway that made inland Manchester a port, taking ocean-going ships 36 miles up from the Mersey estuary.

2.9 km E · Cheshire, Greater Manchester & Merseyside

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

5.8 km NE

A National Trust place in Merseyside.

6.8 km N

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

7.2 km N · spans 24 counties