Heswall is a town of 13,000 people (2011) in the Wirral area of Merseyside.

Get in

Borderlands

• Heswall is about 20 minutes' drive from the Roman city of Chester and about 20 minutes' drive from Liverpool.
  • M53 motorway, junction 4
  • A540
• 1 Heswall railway station, off Brimstage Road, Heswall, Merseyside. CH60 1XQ. Daily 24 hours.  
• Heswall bus station is served by Arriva North West, Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire, Eazibus, A2B Travel and Helms Coaches.

See

• The oldest structure is the tower of St Peter's Parish Church, which is about 500 years old. The present church was built in 1879, and is the third to have been built on the site. The previous church was destroyed by a violent thunderstorm on 19 September 1875.
• The remains of Gayton's windmill, which stopped operating in 1860 and has been converted into a house, can be seen close to the Devon Doorway Restaurant on Gayton Roundabout, a short distance back up Telegraph Road towards Heswall.

Buy

• Linghams. (updated Aug 2019)
• Gerrards. (updated Aug 2019)
• Wet Nelly. (updated Aug 2019)

Eat

• Da Piero, 5 Mill Hill Road, Irby, CH61 4UB, ☏ +44 151 648-7373. 
• Willow Tea House & Bistro, 23 Milner Road, ☏ +44 151 342-9912. Daily 10AM-4:30PM. 
• 1 Sheldrakes, Banks Road, Lower Heswall, CH60 9JS, ☏ +44 151 342-1556. 

Drink

• The Pensby Hotel, 1A Ridgewood Drive, Pensby, CH61 8RA, ☏ +44 151 648-1439. 
• 1 The Basset Hound, Barnston Road, Thingwall, CH61 1AS, ☏ +44 151 648-2223. 
• The Anchor Inn, 1 Thurstaston Rd, Irby, CH61 0HA, ☏ +44 151 648-1698. 
• 2 The Glegg Arms (Windmill), Chester Road, Gayton, CH60 3SD, ☏ +44 151 334-2917. 
• 3 The Devon Doorway, 2 Telegraph Road, Heswall, Wirral CH60 2SA, ☏ +44 151 348-4462. 

Sleep

• 1 Premier Inn Wirral Heswall, Chester Road, Gayton, Heswall, Wirral, CH60 3SD (15 minutes walk from Heswall station), ☏ +44 8701 977 274. From £53. (updated Nov 2020)

Go next

• Central Wirral, the rural interior of the peninsula. Ten minutes by car.
• Neston and Parkgate, like Heswall, each provide a quiet, attractive view along the River Dee. Ten minutes by car.
• New Brighton has an expansive beach with the 19th-century Fort Perch Rock and lighthouse, and views across to Liverpool. There are also some seaside amusements and the Marine Point leisure development, alongside the marine lake. Twenty minutes by car.
• West Kirby and Hoylake each have excellent stretches of beach, with views across to North Wales. There is also a 52-acre marine lake at West Kirby, which has sailing and windsurfing. Fifteen minutes by car.