Formby
Formby is a small, affluent town in Merseyside. Formby's sleepy atmosphere, wealthy residents, and National Trust Reserve make it a popular destination for tourists in the summer months.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 22,900 residents
- Description: town and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England
- Also known as: “Formby, Merseyside” and “Formby, Sefton”
Photo: stan lewis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Tom Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Freshfield railway station and Formby railway station.
Freshfield railway station
Railway station
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Freshfield railway station serves the Freshfield district of Formby, Merseyside, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line.
Formby railway station
Railway station
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Formby railway station is a railway station in the town of Formby, Merseyside, England. The station is located on the Southport branch of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line. The station has a car park.
St Peter’s Church
Church
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St Peter's Church is in Green Lane, Formby, Sefton, Merseyside, England, and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Liverpool. It was built in 1746 to replace a chapel on another site that had been destroyed in a storm.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Freshfield and Lady Green.
Freshfield
Suburb
Freshfield is an area of Formby, in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, situated at the northern end of the town. It has no local political distinction or representation and is included as part of the two council wards which make up Formby, nor is it any longer separated in a physical sense from the town.
Lady Green
Hamlet
Lady Green is a hamlet half a mile east of Ince Blundell, in Sefton, Merseyside, England. It is a traditional grouping of farm buildings built on medieval footings. Lady Green is situated 2½ miles southeast of Formby.
Formby
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Sefton, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.5563° or 53° 33′ 23″ northLongitude
-3.0657° or 3° 3′ 56″ westPopulation
22,900Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FRMOpen location code
9C5RHW4M+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 26703035OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Formby” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Formby”
- Basque: “Formby”
- Bengali: “ফর্মবাই”
- Cebuano: “Formby”
- Chinese: “佛安姆比”
- Chinese: “福姆比”
- Dutch: “Formby”
- French: “Formby”
- German: “Formby”
- Gujarati: “ફોર્મબી”
- Hebrew: “פורמבי”
- Irish: “Formby”
- Italian: “Formby”
- Japanese: “フォームビー”
- Kannada: “ಫಾರ್ಮ್ಬೈ”
- Korean: “폼비”
- Ladin: “Formby”
- Lithuanian: “Formbis”
- Persian: “فورمبی”
- Polish: “Formby”
- Portuguese: “Formby”
- Romanian: “Formby”
- Russian: “Формби”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Formby”
- Spanish: “Formby”
- Swedish: “Formby”
- Tamil: “போரம்பி”
- Telugu: “ఫోరంబై”
- Turkish: “Formby”
- Urdu: “فورمبی”
- Volapük: “Formby”
- Welsh: “Formby”
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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 “Formby”. Photo: Mitt Doot, CC BY 3.0.