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Formby Beach looking toward Liverpool. Formby is a coastal town, with an area of roughly 7 sq miles (17 km 2), located in the borough of Sefton. The town is built upon the west of a large flat area of land called the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. Formby's highest point is within the sand dunes that separate the Irish Sea from Formby. However ...
Great Altcar is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, close to Formby on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. The population as taken at the 2011 census was 213. [1] The name Altcar is Norse meaning "marsh by the Alt". The church of St Michael and All Angels is a timber framed structure dating from 1879. The area is now ...
The station was renamed to Formby in 1866. [1] By 1893 a goods yard opened to the south of Kirklake Road, on the coastal side of the line, it was two sidings forming a run-around loop with a headshunt, it was equipped with a three and a half ton crane. [7] [8] The level crossing was replaced with the road bridge in 1912.
Little Altcar is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton on Merseyside, within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire and on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain of England. The village forms part of the built-up area of Formby. It had a population of 892 in the 2001 Census, [1] increasing to 910 at the 2011 ...
Hightown is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, located midway between the city of Liverpool and the coastal resort of Southport. It is 8 miles north of Liverpool city centre and is located on the coast near the boundary of the Mersey Estuary and Liverpool Bay.
Altcar Training Camp is located in Hightown, Merseyside, England. The 620-acre (250 ha) estate is composed of beaches, marshland, fields and small woods. The 620-acre (250 ha) estate is composed of beaches, marshland, fields and small woods.
In 1871 it became Hightown Rifle Station, in 1886 Altcar Rifle Station, and finally Altcar Rifle Range also in 1886, although this version did not appear in Bradshaw until 1895. [1] The station was mainly used to serve Altcar Rifle Range and the service was irregular. The station was mainly used in the summers and sometimes on the weekends in ...
The Metropolitan Borough of Sefton is a metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.It was formed on 1 April 1974, [5] by the amalgamation of the county boroughs of Bootle and Southport, the municipal borough of Crosby, the urban districts of Formby and Litherland, and part of West Lancashire Rural District.