Higginsons’s Almshouses

Higginsons’s Almshouses is a heritage site in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. Higginsons’s Almshouses is situated nearby to St Alkmund’s Church, as well as near the church St. George.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Alkmund’s Church and Whitchurch Heritage Centre.

St Alkmund’s Church

Church

Photo: Peter I. Vardy, Public domain.

St Alkmund's Church is an active Anglican parish church in Whitchurch, Shropshire, England. By tradition, this church was founded in the 900s CE by the Anglo-Saxon Queen Æthelflæd.

Whitchurch Heritage Centre

Museum

Photo: Ian C Garner, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Whitchurch Heritage Centre is a museum, which is situated 620 feet southeast of Higginsons’s Almshouses.

Whitchurch railway station

Railway station

Photo: Stephen Craven, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Whitchurch railway station serves the town of Whitchurch, in Shropshire, England. The station is 18¾ miles north of Shrewsbury on the Welsh Marches Line. It is maintained and served by Transport for Wales. Whitchurch railway station is situated 3,200 feet east of Higginsons’s Almshouses.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whitchurch and Grindley Brook.

Whitchurch

Town

Photo: Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Whitchurch is a market town in the civil parish of Whitchurch Urban, in the north of Shropshire, England. It lies 2 miles east of the Welsh border, 2 miles south of the Cheshire border, 20 miles north of the county town of Shrewsbury, 20 miles south of Chester, and 15 miles east of Wrexham.

Grindley Brook

Village

Photo: Martin Clark, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Grindley Brook is a small village in Shropshire, England, on the A41 trunk road 2 miles north west of the market town of Whitchurch. It is the most northerly settlement in Shropshire and borders directly onto Cheshire, and is within the civil parish of Whitchurch Urban.

Alkington

Village

Photo: Martin Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Alkington is a hamlet in Shropshire, England, near Whitchurch and south of that town. The village is on limestone and is residential. Alkington is situated 1½ miles south of Higginsons’s Almshouses.

Higginsons’s Almshouses

Type: Heritage site
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Whitchurch, Shropshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.97105° or 52° 58′ 16″ north

Longitude

-2.68548° or 2° 41′ 8″ west

Inception

1697

Open location code

9C4VX8C7+CR

OpenStreetMap ID

way 698114808

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=heritage

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include St. George and Civic Centre.

Nearby Places

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