Thornton
Thornton is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, in Merseyside, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire and situated to the north east of Crosby, it is a residential area of semi-detached and detached housing which dates mainly from the 1930s.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 2,210 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Sefton, Merseyside, England
- Also known as: “Thornton, Merseyside”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Holy Family Catholic High School and St Mary’s Church, Presbytery and Convent, Little Crosby.
Holy Family Catholic High School
School
Holy Family Catholic High School is a Catholic comprehensive school situated in Thornton, Merseyside, England, catering for mixed pupils aged 11–18. The current intake at the school is 885, of which 156 are aged 16–18 pursuing further education in the school's own sixth form, with student attainment Year 13 above average in 2004, compared with all sixth forms nationally.
St Mary’s Church, Presbytery and Convent, Little Crosby
Church
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St. Mary's Church, Presbytery and Convent are in Back Lane, Little Crosby, Sefton, Merseyside, England. The church is an active Roman Catholic parish church in the diocese of Liverpool which was built in 1845–47.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Crosby and Lunt.
Little Crosby
Village
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Little Crosby is a small village in the Sefton district of Merseyside, England. Despite being within 8 miles of Liverpool it has retained its rural character by, for example, opting not to have street lights.
Lunt
Village
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Lunt is a small village in the civil parish of Sefton, in the borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, close to Sefton Village and to the west of Maghull and is in the L29 postcode.
Crosby
Crosby is a coastal town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. it is north of Bootle, south of Southport and Formby, and west of Netherton.
Thornton
- Categories: civil parish, suburb, and locality
- Location: Thornton, Sefton, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.50301° or 53° 30′ 11″ northLongitude
-3.00613° or 3° 0′ 22″ westPopulation
2,210Elevation
62 feet (19 metres)Open location code
9C5RGX3V+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 30644298OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2635974Wikidata ID
Q2458541
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Thornton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thornton”
- Dutch: “Thornton”
- French: “Thornton”
- Irish: “Thornton”
- Polish: “Thornton”
- Swedish: “Thornton, Merseyside”
- Swedish: “Thornton”
- Turkish: “Thornton, Merseyside”
- Welsh: “Thornton, Glannau Merswy”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sefton & Thornton/Nags Head (Crosby) Crown Green Bowls Club and Thornton Wood.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thornton”. Photo: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0.