Rainford
Rainford is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England, 5 miles north of St Helens. At the 2011 Census, the population was 7,779.Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village with 7,850 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in St. Helens, Merseyside, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Rainford, Merseyside” and “Rainford, St. Helens”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rainford High School and Rainford railway station.
Rainford High School
School
Rainford High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located in Rainford, Merseyside, England. It first opened in 1940 and continues to serve the communities of St Helens, West Lancashire, Wigan and Kirkby to this day.
Rainford railway station
Railway station
Photo: Raymond Knapman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rainford railway station is situated to the north of the village of Rainford, in Merseyside, England; it is a stop on the Kirkby branch line. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Northern Trains.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Longshaw and Skelmersdale.
Longshaw
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longshaw is a small residential and agricultural area within Billinge Higher End at the western boundary of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. Longshaw is situated 3½ miles east of Rainford.
Skelmersdale
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skelmersdale is a town in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England. It sits on the River Tawd, 6 miles west of Wigan, 13 miles north-east of Liverpool and 15 miles south-west of Preston.
Up Holland
Village
Photo: Small-town hero, Public domain.
Up Holland is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, 4 miles west of Wigan. The population at the 2011 census was 7,376. Up Holland is situated 4 miles northeast of Rainford.
Rainford
- Categories: town, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Rainford, St. Helens, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.50208° or 53° 30′ 8″ northLongitude
-2.78788° or 2° 47′ 16″ westPopulation
7,850Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RNFOpen location code
9C5VG626+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 29974965OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Volapük—“Rainford” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Rainford”
- Basque: “Rainford”
- Bengali: “রেইনফোর্ড”
- Cebuano: “Rainford”
- Chinese: “雷恩福特”
- Dutch: “Rainford”
- French: “Rainford”
- German: “Rainford”
- Gujarati: “રેનફોર્ડ”
- Irish: “Rainford”
- Italian: “Rainford”
- Japanese: “レインフォード”
- Kannada: “ರೇನ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “레인포드”
- Ladin: “Rainford”
- Lithuanian: “Reinfordas”
- Persian: “رینفورد”
- Polish: “Rainford”
- Portuguese: “Rainford”
- Russian: “Рейнфорд”
- Spanish: “Rainford”
- Swedish: “Rainford”
- Tamil: “ரெயின்போர்ட்”
- Telugu: “రైన్ఫోర్డ్”
- Turkish: “Rainford”
- Urdu: “رین فورڈ”
- Volapük: “Rainford”
- “Rainford”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Eagle & Child (Rainford) Crown Green Bowls Club and Rainford Parish Church Hall.
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