Ellesmere Port is in West Cheshire. Surrounding villages include Willaston, Neston, Parkgate, and Hooton.

Get in

1 Ellesmere Port railway station is on a line connecting the town to Birkenhead and Liverpool.

• 1 Neston train station, CH64 9SR. Neston station is the last English station on the borderlands line 
• Overpool train station. 
• Capenhurst station. 
• Bache station. 

See

Whitby lighthouse

• 1 Ellesmere Port Boat Museum (National Waterways Museum). archives focus on the Britain's navigable inland waterways, including its rivers and canals, and include canal boats, traditional clothing, painted canal decorative ware and tools  
• 2 Hadlow Road Station, Hadlow Road, Willaston, (about 30 minutes walk from Hooton station on the Wirral railway line, towards Neston). free.  
• 3 Blue Planet Aquarium, Cheshire Oaks, CH65 9LF, ☏ +44 151 357-8804. Daily 10AM–5PM. £26.50. (updated May 2024)

Do

• Wirral way. 

Buy

• Parkgate ice cream. 
• Cheshire Oaks Retail Park. 
• Coliseum Shopping Park. 

Eat

• 1 The Chimneys, Hooton Green, Hooton, CH66 5ND, ☏ +44 151 327-5587. 
• Cheshire Yeoman. 
• The Pollard. 
• The Nag's Head. 
• Burleydam. 
• Miller and Carter. 
• Prezzo. 
• 2 The Galley Restaurant, 1 S Pier Rd, ☏ +44 151 355-1163. (updated Oct 2016)

Drink

• The White Lion Inn. 
• The White Swan. 
• The Sutton. 
• Travellers Rest, 14 Ledsham Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire CH66 4QQ. 
• The Rake. 
• Old Wirral Hundred. 
• 1 The Chimneys, Hooton Green, Hooton. CH66 5ND, ☏ +44 151 327-5587. 
• The Burleydam, Chester Rd, Childer Thornton, Ellesmere Port, CH66. 
• Nag's Head, Hooton Road, Willaston CH64 1SJ, ☏ +44 151 328-0808. 

Sleep

• Burleydam. 
• Tudor Rose. 
• 1 Holiday Inn Ellesmere Port, Centre Island, Waterways, Lower Mersey St., ☏ +44 151 356-8111. Good hotel in excellent location. (updated Oct 2016)
• The Woodcote, 3 Hooton Road, Hooton. CH66 1QU, ☏ +44 151 328-5730. 

Connect

As of Oct 2022, Ellesmere Port has 4G from all UK carriers. 5G has not yet reached town, though it's getting close.

Go next

• Wirral
• Liverpool
• Chester

Routes through Ellesmere Port

Liverpool ← Bromborough ←	N  S	→ Chester → Wrexham
Llandudno ← Deeside ←	W  E	→ Runcorn → Manchester
Birkenhead ← Bromborough ←	NW  SE	→ Chester