Pex Hill Quarry
Pex Hill Quarry is a quarry in Cronton, Knowsley, England. Pex Hill Quarry is situated nearby to Pex Hill Park, as well as near Leighton Observatory (Liverpool Astronomical Society).Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Widnes railway station and St Bartholomew’s Church, Rainhill.
Widnes railway station
Railway station
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
Widnes railway station is a railway station serving the industrial town of Widnes, Halton, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The station is operated by Northern Trains. Widnes railway station is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Pex Hill Quarry.
St Bartholomew’s Church, Rainhill
Church
Photo: Pjposullivan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Bartholomew's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Rainhill, Merseyside. It was built in 1838–40 in the style of the Church of San Bartholomew on the Island in Rome. St Bartholomew’s Church, Rainhill is situated 1 mile north of Pex Hill Quarry.
St Luke’s Church, Farnworth
Church
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
St Luke's Church, Farnworth, Widnes, is a church in Farnworth, which was once a separate village but is now part of the town of Widnes in Cheshire, England. St Luke’s Church, Farnworth is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Pex Hill Quarry.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cronton and Farnworth.
Cronton
Village
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Cronton is a village and civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley, Merseyside, in England. The village is surrounded by green belt land. Over the county border in Cheshire, Widnes town centre is 2.3 miles to the south-southeast.
Farnworth
Suburb
Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.
Farnworth is a northern area of the town of Widnes in Halton, Cheshire, England. Originally a village lying between Prescot and Penketh, it is an electoral ward in the Borough of Halton with a population of 7,990 in 2021.
Rainhill
Suburb
Photo: Sue Adair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rainhill is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, Merseyside, England. The population at the 2011 census was 10,853. Historically part of Lancashire, Rainhill was a township in the ecclesiastical parish of Prescot and hundred of West Derby.
Pex Hill Quarry
- Type: Sports location
- Category: quarry
- Location: Cronton, Knowsley, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.39245° or 53° 23′ 33″ northLongitude
-2.7523° or 2° 45′ 8″ westOperator
United UtilitiesOpen location code
9C5V96RX+X3OpenStreetMap ID
way 25863729OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarryOpenStreetMap feature
sport=rock climbing
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