242 - Visitors Guide 10pt 29/7/08 11:40 Page 30 Coast Finding Your 3 1 Hilbre Islands 2 North Wirral Coastal Park Way Around 3 Fort Perch Rock IRISH SEA New Brighton 4 Mersey Ferries Wirral is easily accessible by road, rail, sea and 1 5 West Kirby Marine Lake 2 air. Both Liverpool John Lennon Airport and Countryside A554 Manchester International Airport are a realistic Wallasey 1 Wirral Country Park 3 1 2 Royden Park 45 minutes by road. The M53 motorway which 3 Arrowe Country Park 2 A551 4 Birkenhead Park runs through Wirral connects to the M56 and M6. Leasowe 4 J1 1 Liverpool 5 Eastham Country Park Two Mersey Tunnels link Useful Numbers: 6 Tam O’Shanter Urban Farm Wirral to Liverpool and the 4 • Tourist Information A553 7 Claremont Fishery rest of Merseyside, and 0151 666 3188 8 Brimstage Europe’s oldest ferry 2 • Traveline Merseytravel 9 Thornton Hough continues the “Ferry ‘cross 6 0870 608 2608 A553 2 the Mersey” service from J2 4 • National Rail Services 3 Great days out Woodside and Seacombe. 3 A5027 4 0845 748 4950 4 5 5 1 Spaceport • AA Breakdown Service A local rail network connects Hoylake 4 5 2 Pacific Road Arts Centre 0800 887766 Birkenhead 3 Shore Road Pumping Station the peninsula to the national 7 6 rail network via Liverpool • RAC Breakdown Service 6 4 Wirral Museum 0800 828282 A41 Lime Street Station. Wirral 1 A540 Tranmere 5 Birkenhead Priory also boasts a comprehensive • Norfolk Line Ferries 6 Williamson Art Gallery 0870 600 4321 local bus network for you to 7 Lady Lever Art Gallery • Isle of Man Ferries A552 explore the region. 6 8 Sunlight Vision Museum 0870 552 3523 RIVER J3 9 Gladstone Theatre • Liverpool John Lennon 5 West Kirby 3 MERSEY 10 Voirrey Embroidery Airport Rock Ferry 0870 750 8484 2 9 8 Golf Courses • Manchester Airport 7 0161 489 3000 A540 8 1 Warren Park Golf Links 4 • Arrowe Park Hospital 2 Wallasey Golf Club (A&E Birkenhead) RIVER 10 M53 Port Sunlight 3 Leasowe Golf Club 0151 678 5111 DEE 9 1 Thurstaston A551 4 Bidston Golf Club • Merseyside Police 5 Wirral Ladies Golf Club 11 (non-emergency) Bebington 6 Hoylake Municipal Golf Course 0151 709 6010 7 Royal Liverpool Golf Club 8 J4 7 8 Prenton Golf Club 9 Arrowe Park Golf Course Blackpool Heswall 9 10 Preston 7 10 Caldy Golf Club BlackburnBlackpool 11 Brackenwood Golf Course Preston 8 A41 5 12 Eastham Lodge Golf Club Blackburn 13 Bromborough Golf Club G Edinburgh 9 Southport Bolton 12 14 Heswall Golf Club A540 Glasgow Edinburgh Wigan Eastham Southport Bolton Newcastle 13 Shopping Centres MANCHESTER Wigan 14 1 Cherry Tree Shopping Centre St Helens Newcastle verpool LIVERPOOL Stockport MANCHESTER 2 Moreton Manchester 3 Hoylake Warrington St Helens WIRRAL LIVERPOOL Stockport J5 Liverpool WIRRAL 4 Grange Shopping Centre Birmingham Manchester Widnes Warrington 5 Pyramids Shopping Centre WIRRAL and Birkenhead Market Birmingham Rhyl WIRRAL C i! Widnes 6 West Kirby London WALES Train route Bristol CHESTRhyl ER 7 Bromborough Village Cardi! Train station Portsmouth London WALES 8 Heswall Bristol CHESTER P Crewe Motorway Brimstage Hall and This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the 9 Craft Centre Portsmouth Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown Plymouth Wrexham A-road Stoke on Tcopyrightrent and mayC leadrewe to prosecution or civil proceedings. Licence number 100019803. Published 2007. Pages 30/31 Wrexham Stoke on Trent.