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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 ...
Formby is mentioned in the song Slow Train by Flanders and Swann. This is because the Beeching Report listed Formby as a station to be closed, along with the entire Liverpool to Southport route, which never happened. [14] In 1978 the station became part of the Merseyrail network's Northern Line (operated by British Rail until privatised in 1995 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 roads on the new development were named after some of the pioneers in the field of electricity: Callan Crescent, Edison Close, Gilbert Close, Tesla Way, and Wheatstone Road. [ citation needed ] In February 2017, a gate was installed on Hoggs Hill Lane to prevent vehicular access to the site via the original route.