Whiston
Whiston is a town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley in Merseyside, England. It is located 8 miles east of Liverpool. The population was 13,629 in 2001, increasing to 14,263 in 2011.
- Town with 12,900 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 203 feet (62 metres)
- Description: village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, UK
- Also known as“Whiston, England”“Whiston, Merseyside”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whiston railway station and Whiston Hospital.
Whiston railway station
Railway station
Prescot railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prescot and Rainhill.
Prescot
Town
Huyton
Town
Whiston
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Latitude
53.41692° or 53° 25′ 1″ north
Longitude
-2.79058° or 2° 47′ 26″ west
UN/LOCODE
GB WIO
Open location code
9C5VC685+QQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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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”
- 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”
- Ukrainian: “Вістон”
- 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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Notable Places Nearby
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