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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 range is run by the North West Reserve Forces & Cadets Association. [2]
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 .
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 intermediate stations that opened with the line were Crosby (later Blundellsands & Crosby), Hightown and Formby and Altcar (later Formby), Ainsdale and Gilbert's Crossing (later Birkdale Park, and then Birkdale). [13] Freshfield station opened in 1854. [14]