Kirkby
Kirkby is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, England. The town, historically in Lancashire, has a size of 4,070 acres is 5 miles north of Huyton and 6 miles north-east of Liverpool.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include St Chad’s Church and Kirkby railway station.
St Chad’s Church
Church
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St Chad's Church is in Old Hall Lane, Kirkby, Knowsley, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Huyton, the archdeaconry of Liverpool, and the diocese of Liverpool.
Kirkby railway station
Railway station
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Kirkby railway station is situated in Kirkby, Merseyside, England. It is located 7.5 miles north-east of Liverpool Central and is on the Headbolt Lane branch of Merseyrail's Northern Line.
Headbolt Lane railway station
Railway station
Headbolt Lane is a railway station in Kirkby, Merseyside, England, which opened on 5 October 2023. The station is the interchange between Merseyrail's Northern Line and the unelectrified Headbolt Lane branch line, operated by Northern.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waddicar and Aintree.
Waddicar
Village
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Waddicar is the name given to an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, between Melling and Kirkby in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley.
Aintree
Suburb
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Aintree is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England. Historically in Lancashire, it lies between Walton and Maghull on the A59 road, 6 miles northeast of Liverpool city centre. Aintree is situated 2 miles west of Kirkby.
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 2½ miles southeast of Kirkby.
Kirkby
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Knowsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.48211° or 53° 28′ 56″ northLongitude
-2.88861° or 2° 53′ 19″ westPopulation
42,700Elevation
82 feet (25 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KKBOpen location code
9C5VF4J6+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 30644144OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Kirkby” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيركبي”
- Armenian: “Քերբի”
- Asturian: “Kirkby”
- Basque: “Kirkby”
- Belarusian: “Кербі”
- Belarusian: “Керкбі”
- Belarusian: “Кэркбі”
- Cebuano: “Kirkby”
- Chinese: “基尔比 (兰开夏郡)”
- Chinese: “基尔比 (蘭開夏郡)”
- Chinese: “基爾比”
- Chinese: “柯克比”
- Chinese: “柯比鎮”
- Dutch: “Kirkby”
- French: “Kirkby”
- German: “Kirkby (Merseyside)”
- German: “Kirkby”
- Hebrew: “קירקבי”
- Irish: “Kirkby”
- Italian: “Kirkby”
- Japanese: “カークビー”
- Korean: “커크비”
- Ladin: “Kirkby”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kirkby”
- Persian: “کرکبی”
- Polish: “Kirkby”
- Portuguese: “Kirkby”
- Romanian: “Kirkby”
- Russian: “Керби”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kirkby, Merseyside”
- Spanish: “Kirkby”
- Swedish: “Kirkby”
- Turkish: “Kirkby”
- Volapük: “Kirkby”
- Welsh: “Kirkby”
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