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Knowsley
Whiston

Whiston

Whiston is a town and civil parish within the in , England. It is located 8 miles east of . The population was 13,629 in 2001, increasing to 14,263 in 2011.
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  • Type: Town with 13,600 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, UK
  • Also known as: “Whiston, England” and “Whiston, Merseyside”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Whiston railway station and Whiston Hospital.

Railway station
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serves the village of Whiston in , England. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains. It lies on the electrified northern route of the Liverpool to Manchester Line, the original Liverpool and Manchester Railway 7+1⁄2 miles east of Liverpool Lime Street.

Hospital
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is an acute general hospital in Whiston, Merseyside, though its postal address places it in adjacent . The hospital is managed by Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Railway station
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serves the town of , , England. It is situated on the electrified Liverpool to Wigan Line. The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by Northern Trains.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Prescot and Rainhill.

Town
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is a town and civil parish within the Town of St Helens in , England. It lies about 8 miles to the east of . At the 2001 Census, the civil parish population was 11,184.

Suburb
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is a village and civil parish in the , , . The population at the 2011 census was 10,853. Historically part of , was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of and hundred of West Derby.

Town
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is a town in the , , England. Part of the Liverpool Built-up Area, it borders the Liverpool suburbs of Dovecot, and . is situated 2 miles west of Whiston.

Whiston

Latitude
53.41692° or 53° 25′ 1″ north
Longitude
-2.79058° or 2° 47′ 26″ west
Population
13,600
Elevation
203 feet (62 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WIO
Open location code
9C5VC685+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30578562
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6694788
Wiki­data ID
Q1830491
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In Other Languages

From Azerbaijani to Welsh—“Whiston” goes by many names.
  • Azerbaijani: “Viston”
  • Belarusian: “Уістан”
  • Belarusian: “Ўістан”
  • Bengali: “উইশটন”
  • Bulgarian: “Уистън”
  • Catalan: “Whiston”
  • Cebuano: “Whiston”
  • Chinese: “惠斯頓”
  • Chinese: “惠斯顿”
  • Czech: “Whiston”
  • Dutch: “Whiston”
  • French: “Whiston”
  • German: “Whiston (Merseyside)”
  • German: “Whiston”
  • Gujarati: “વિસ્ટન”
  • Hebrew: “ויסטון”
  • Irish: “Whiston, Merseyside”
  • Irish: “Whiston”
  • Italian: “Whiston”
  • Japanese: “ウィストン”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಸ್ಟನ್”
  • Korean: “휘스턴”
  • Ladin: “Whiston (Lancashire)”
  • Ladin: “Whiston”
  • Lithuanian: “Vinstonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whiston”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whiston i Merseyside”
  • Norwegian: “Whiston”
  • Persian: “ویتسن، مرزیساید”
  • Persian: “ویستن، مرزیساید”
  • Polish: “Whiston”
  • Portuguese: “Whiston”
  • Romanian: “Whiston, Merseyside”
  • Russian: “Уистон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Whiston”
  • Slovenian: “Whiston”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویتسن، مرزیساید”
  • Spanish: “Whiston (Merseyside)”
  • Spanish: “Whiston”
  • Swedish: “Whiston, Merseyside”
  • Swedish: “Whiston”
  • Tamil: “வ்ஹிஸ்டன்”
  • Telugu: “విస్టన్”
  • Thai: “วิสตัน”
  • Turkish: “Whiston, Merseyside”
  • Ukrainian: “Вінстон”
  • Urdu: “وہیسٹن”
  • Vietnamese: “Whiston, Merseyside”
  • Vietnamese: “Whiston”
  • Volapük: “Whiston”
  • Welsh: “Whiston, Glannau Merswy”
  • Welsh: “Whiston”

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Localities in the Area

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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 “Whiston”. Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.