Hilbre
West Kirby is on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside. Hoylake is an idyllic seaside town overlooking the Irish Sea with views of Wales, Hilbre Island and Liverpool. International tourism booms during major golf tournaments at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Peter Craine, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Island
- Description: island at the mouth of the estuary of the River Dee, England
- Also known as: “Hilbre Island” and “Hilbre Islands”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hilbre Island Lighthouse and Royal Liverpool Golf Club.
Hilbre Island Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: John S Turner, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hilbre Island Lighthouse is located on Hilbre Island acting as a port landmark for the Hilbre swash in the River Dee estuary. It was established in 1927 by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board Authority, now the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company, but has been operated by Trinity House since 1973.
Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Golf course
Photo: Rodhullandemu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Royal Liverpool Golf Club is a golf club in Wirral in Merseyside, England. It was founded in 1869 on what was then the racecourse of the Liverpool Hunt Club.
West Kirby railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter Whatley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Kirby railway station serves the town of West Kirby, in Merseyside, England. It is the terminus of the West Kirby branch line, one of the two branches of the Wirral Line on the Merseyrail network.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Kirby and Hoylake.
West Kirby
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
West Kirby is on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside. Hoylake is an idyllic seaside town overlooking the Irish Sea with views of Wales, Hilbre Island and Liverpool. International tourism booms during major golf tournaments at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.
Hoylake
Town
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Kirby is on the Wirral Peninsula in Merseyside. Hoylake is an idyllic seaside town overlooking the Irish Sea with views of Wales, Hilbre Island and Liverpool. International tourism booms during major golf tournaments at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.
Grange
Suburb
Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Grange is a suburb of West Kirby, on the Wirral Peninsula, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England. The suburb is contiguous with Newton to the north east.
Hilbre
- Categories: tidal island, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: Wirral, North West England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.38209° or 53° 22′ 56″ northLongitude
-3.22637° or 3° 13′ 35″ westOpen location code
9C5R9QJF+RFOpenStreetMap ID
way 250292715OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Hilbre” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جزر هيلبري”
- Bavarian: “Hilbre Islands”
- Cebuano: “Hilbre Island”
- Dutch: “Hilbre Island”
- French: “Hilbre Islands”
- German: “Hilbre Island”
- German: “Hilbre Islands”
- German: “Hilbre-Inseln”
- Italian: “Fanale di Hilbre Island”
- Italian: “isola Hilbre”
- Italian: “Isola Hilbre”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hilbre Island”
- Polish: “Hilbre”
- Russian: “Хилбри”
- Swedish: “Hilbre Island”
- Welsh: “Hilbre”
- Welsh: “Ynys Hilbre”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hilbre Island and Middle Eye (Little Hilbre).
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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 Wikivoyage page “Hilbre”. Photo: Peter Craine, CC BY-SA 2.0.