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 6,130 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 Skelmersdale and St Helens.
Skelmersdale
Town
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skelmersdale is a town in the Western 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. Skelmersdale is situated 3½ miles north of Rainford.
St Helens
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St Helens is a town in Merseyside in England, 14 miles northeast of Liverpool. It was historically part of Lancashire, but in 1974 became a separate metropolitan borough.
Knowsley
Village
Knowsley, commonly known as Knowsley Village, is a large village and civil parish in Merseyside located on the north-east outskirts of Liverpool, within the much larger Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley It gave its name to the wider borough when it was formed in 1974. Knowsley is situated 4 miles southwest 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
6,130Elevation
144 feet (44 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB RNFOpen location code
9C5VG626+RROpenStreetMap ID
node 29974965OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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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: “راینفورڈ”
- Volapük: “Rainford”
- “Rainford”
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Localities in the Area
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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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