Bescar
in Lancashire of England, United Kingdom
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Birmingham International Airport (3.625 mi) - Hawarden Airport (3.678 mi)
- Manchester Woodford Airport (3.687 mi)
- Liverpool John Lennon Airport (3.688 mi)
- Manchester Airport (3.689 mi)
- Blackpool International Airport (3.719 mi)
- Leeds Bradford Airport (3.723 mi)
- Barrow Walney Island Airport (3.745 mi)
- Carlisle Airport (3.799 mi)
- Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (Unesco heritage, 3.664 mi)
- Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (Unesco heritage, 3.678 mi)
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Frontiers of the Roman Empire (Unesco heritage, 3.800 mi) - Mossock Hall Golf Club (Golf course, 3.702 mi)
- Formby Golf Club (Golf course, 3.705 mi)
- Hurlston Hall Golf Club (Golf course, 3.706 mi)
- Ormskirk Golf Club (Golf course, 3.706 mi)
- Hillside Golf Club (Golf course, 3.709 mi)
- The Royal Birkdale Golf Club (Golf course, 3.710 mi)
- Hesketh Golf Club (Golf course, 3.710 mi)
- Park Golf Club (Golf course, 3.711 mi)
- Southport Old Links (Golf course, 3.711 mi)
- Lytham Green Drive Golf Club (Golf course, 3.717 mi)
- Blackpool Tower (observation point, (3.722 mi)
- Decimal Coordinates (Latitude, Longitude):
- 0.000 and 0.000 (Lat./Lng.)
- Coordinates by Time:
- N 0° 0' 0" and E 0° 0' 0"
- Currency and Currency Code:
- Pound - GBP
- Spoken languages:
- English, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic
- Local electricity:
- Mobile phone / cellular frequencies (MHz):
- Local Time: 10:52 AM (Thursday)
- Timezone: Europe/London
- UTC/GMT offset: 0 hours
- Sunrise and Sunset:
- 6:42 am and 6:49 pm
- Antipode Coordinates:
- -45.817 and 170.717 (Lat./Lng.)
- Closest place to antipode coordinates:
Otakou - References
- This place on Geonames.org
Safety Score: 3,0 of 5.0 based on data from 9 authorites. Meaning we advice caution when travelling to United Kingdom.
Travel warnings are updated daily. Source: Travel Warning United Kingdom. Last Update: 2024-08-13 08:21:03
Discover Bescar
The district Bescar of in Lancashire (England) with it's 571 citizens Bescar is a subburb in United Kingdom about 187 mi north-west of London, the country's capital city.
If you need a hotel, we compiled a list of available hotels close to the map centre further down the page.
While being here, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Southport, Melling, Ince Blundell, Thornton and Warton. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 4°C / 38 °F
| Morning Temperature | 2°C / 35 °F |
| Evening Temperature | 4°C / 40 °F |
| Night Temperature | 4°C / 40 °F |
| Chance of rainfall | 8% |
| Air Humidity | 66% |
| Air Pressure | 1000 hPa |
| Wind Speed | Fresh Breeze with 15 km/h (9 mph) from South-East |
| Cloud Conditions | Overcast clouds, covering 97% of sky |
| General Conditions | Rain and snow |
Friday, 22nd of November 2024
6°C (43 °F)
4°C (40 °F)
Moderate rain, strong breeze, broken clouds.
Saturday, 23rd of November 2024
5°C (41 °F)
13°C (55 °F)
Moderate rain, strong breeze, overcast clouds.
Sunday, 24th of November 2024
10°C (50 °F)
10°C (51 °F)
Moderate rain, moderate breeze, overcast clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
The Baytrees Hotel
Leicester Hotel
Vincent
Albert and Victoria Hotel
Ramada Plaza Southport
Scarisbrick Hotel
TRAVELODGE SOUTHPORT
Southport (Ormskirk)
Metropole
Prince of Wales Merseyside
Videos from this area
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The Southport FC Match Day Experience
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Southport v Port Vale FA Cup 1st Round 1988
Highlights of the FA Cup 1st Round tie at Haig Avenue on 19 November 1988.
Southport gas tower demolition
A Walk Through Ormskirk Town
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A Little Ormskirk Movie
Walking through Church Street and up to the church. Buy Ormskirk art at http://liberty.artistwebsites.com/art/all/ormskirk/all Visit my Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/ormskirkphotos.
Cormorant at Coronation Park, Ormskirk - 15th March 2013
A little video snippet set to some Chopin of a Cormorant that took a stop at Coronation Park in Ormskirk, Lancashire. Shot using my Nikon D7000 with the Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.5 Di SP VC USD.
St Helens Club 500 at OWLS
St.Helens model boat club visited the OWLS model boat club open day held in their new location at Hurlston Hall Golf Club just outside Ormskirk. Two St.Helens members took a break from their...
SPEEDING TRAFFIC, RUFFORD ROAD, SOUTHPORT
Just a sample of the cars, vans, wagons, tractors and buses that speed along Rufford Road, Southport everyday. We now have the added features of Speed "Cushions". What they actually cushion,...
The Riverside Steam and Vintage Rally
Thousands turned out to the Riverside Steam and Vintage Rally 2011 in Southport. The Highlight of this years event was the 'Fred Dibnah Collection' on display for the first time since Fred's...
THE STORM Southport GB June 2009
bad storm over Southport in June 2009 never heard thunder so loud here !!!!!!!!
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Southport F.C
Southport Football Club is an English football club based in Southport, Merseyside. The club participates in the Conference National, the fifth tier of English football. They play their home matches at The Merseyrail Community Stadium, which has a capacity of 6,008 (1,884 seated, 4,124 standing). They are known by their nickname "The Sandgrounders".
Scarisbrick Hall
Scarisbrick Hall is a country house situated just to the south-east of the village of Scarisbrick in Lancashire, England.
Bescar Lane railway station
Bescar Lane railway station is on the Manchester to Southport Line, 4.5 miles east of Southport in the village of Scarisbrick. Bescar Lane is an old cottage-style station, operated by the Northern Rail franchise. Its remote location, some distance from the centre of Scarisbrick Parish, is considered "problematical".
New Lane railway station
New Lane railway station serves the rural communities and farming villages around New Lane in West Lancashire, in the north-west of England. It is served and managed by Northern Rail and is situated near the Martin Mere bird sanctuary, which can be reached by a 1 mile walk. Trains run to Southport and Manchester Victoria via Wigan Wallgate every two hours. The odd Southport to Manchester Airport train calls at New Lane at certain times of the day.
Meols Cop railway station
Meols Cop railway station serves the Blowick suburb of the coastal town of Southport, Merseyside, England. The station has an island platform and is served by Northern Rail's Manchester Victoria - Southport via Wigan Wallgate branch services, on which it is the last stop before the terminus. The station is unstaffed and passengers must buy their tickets on the train.
Martin Mere
Martin Mere is a mere near Burscough, in Lancashire, England on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. The mere is a vast marsh, around grid reference SD 41 15 that, until it was drained, was the largest body of fresh water in England.
Shirdley Hill
Shirdley Hill is a small village in the civil parish of Halsall, Lancashire, England, and is situated on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. It is reached by B roads from either the A5147 or the A570. An £80,000 redevelopment of the village green, completed in 2009, provided the green with a new pond, benches and a flower bed. Shirdley Hill railway station was on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway, though the station closed in 1938, and the track was lifted in 1964.
Ormskirk Urban District
Ormskirk was an urban district in the county of Lancashire from 1894 to 1974. It was named after the town of Ormskirk, which constituted its main settlement. The district was merged with Lathom and Burscough Urban District in 1931, taking in the villages of Burscough, Newburgh and Lathom.
Barton railway station
Barton was a railway station in the village of Barton, Lancashire, on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway. Situated to the south of the roadbridge on Station Road, the station opened on 1 November 1887, and was renamed Downholland on 2June 1924. Downholland (Barton) largely served as the terminus for trains coming from Southport, though through trains to Altcar and Hillhouse operated until 1926.
Shirdley Hill railway station
Shirdley Hill was a railway station in the village of Shirdley Hill, Lancashire, on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway. Situated on Renacres Lane, the station opened on 1 November 1887 and was the only station on the Barton Branch to have a level crossing instead of a road bridge. The "Altcar Bob" service operated through Shirdley Hill from July 1906. The station closed to passengers on 26 September 1938, though the line remained open for goods traffic until 21 January 1952.
Haig Avenue
Haig Avenue, known as the The Merseyrail Community Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Southport, England that holds 6,008 spectators, with 1,660 seated and 4,440 standing. Since being opened in 1905 it has been the home ground of Conference National side Southport F.C..
Meols Hall
Meols Hall is a historical manor house in Churchtown, Merseyside, dating from the 12th century but largely rebuilt by Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh in the 1960s.
Halsall railway station
Halsall railway station was a railway station in the village of Halsall, Lancashire, on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway. Situated north of Carr Moss Lane, it opened on 1 November 1887 and closed on 26 September 1938. The tracks were lifted shortly after the line closed in 1952, though the station building survives as a private residence. The "Altcar Bob" service once operated through this station.
New Cut Lane Halt railway station
New Cut Lane Halt was a railway station between Shirdley Hill and Halsall in Lancashire. The station opened in July 1906 as a halt on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway, and consisted of simple cinder based platforms at track level. It was situated to the south of the roadbridge on New Cut Lane, to which it was connected by wooden steps. The station closed to passengers on 26 September 1938 and the tracks were lifted shortly after the line closed in 1952.
Kew Gardens railway station (Merseyside)
Kew Gardens was a railway station on the edge of Southport, Merseyside, on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway. The station opened on 1 November 1887, and was situated north of the A570 between Meols Cop Road and Foul Lane. Kew Gardens served and was named after a nearby 12-acre park and boating lake, which closed around 1930. The station closed to passengers on 26 September 1938, though the line remained open for goods traffic until 21 January 1952.
Butts Lane Halt railway station
Butts Lane Halt was a railway station in the Blowick suburb of Southport, Merseyside. The station opened in March 1907 as a halt on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway, and consisted of simple cinder based platforms at track level, situated on an embankment to the south of Butts Lane bridge. The station closed on 26 September 1938, though the line remains open and is today used by trains on the Northern Rail Manchester to Southport Line.
Plex Moss Lane Halt railway station
Plex Moss Lane Halt was a railway station between Halsall and Barton in Lancashire. The station opened in July 1906 as a halt on the Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway, and consisted of simple cinder based platforms at track level which required steps to be lowered from the coach for passenger access. It was situated to the south of the roadbridge on Plex Moss Lane, to which it was connected by wooden steps.
Blowick railway station
Blowick railway station was on the Manchester and Southport Railway in the Blowick suburb of Southport, Merseyside. Situated on a level crossing on Meols Cop Road, the station opened as Cop End in early 1871, and was renamed Blowick on 1 October 1871. The station closed on 25 September 1939, and this section of the line closed on 14 June 1965, forcing trains to divert through Meols Cop on a section of the old Liverpool, Southport and Preston Junction Railway.
Meols Cop High School
Meols Cop High School is a mixed 11-16 comprehensive school located in Southport, Merseyside, England. The school was opened in 1941 and originally consisted of two separate single sex secondary modern schools. One half of the building accommodated the girls and one half the boys – the hall was shared. In 1979 the two schools amalgamated to form Meols Cop High School under the leadership of Alan Hall, the boy's secondary modern head teacher.
Southport gas holder
Southport Gas Holder was once the tallest structure in the northern town of Southport, England for 40 years. The 84.5 m high structure could be seen from miles around, for example from Blackpool and Winter Hill. To some people of the local area it was an instantly recognisable symbol of home coming after being away for weeks. It was built in 1969 in the Blowick area of Southport (1.7 miles from the town centre) – grid reference SD362167.
Southport Botanic Gardens
Southport Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden situated in the suburban village of Churchtown, Southport, in Merseyside, England. It is often called "The Jewel in the Crown" as it is nationally known for its floral displays, which have been featured in the BBC TV program Gardener's World.
St Cuthbert's Church, Churchtown
St Cuthbert's Church is an Anglican church in Churchtown, Merseyside, a village that is now a suburb of Southport in the English county of Merseyside. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool and the archdeaconry of Warrington. It has been designated a Grade II listed building by English Heritage. Historically, St Cuthbert's was the parish church of the ecclesiastical parish of North Meols and was within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire.
West Lancashire College
West Lancashire College (formerly Skelmersdale & Ormskirk College) is a further education college located over three sites in West Lancashire, England. It is a constituent college of Newcastle College.
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is in the market town of Ormskirk, Lancashire, England. Dating from no later than the 12th century, it is one of only three churches in England to have both a western tower and a central spire, and the only one to have them both at the same end of the church. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool. It is designated a Grade II* listed building by English Heritage.
St Cuthbert's Church, Halsall
St Cuthbert's Church is an Anglican church in Halsall, a village in Lancashire, England. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Liverpool and the archdeaconry of Warrington. The oldest parts of the church date from the 14th century and there have been several alteratons and additions. It is designated a Grade I listed building by English Heritage.