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 arts center Creatology.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 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″ northLongitude
-2.68548° or 2° 41′ 8″ westInception
1697Open location code
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