Parks

Country Park and Car Parking Free

* Child / Senior Citizen
Children under 3 go free
Discount rates are available for educational and booked groups. Last admission - 30 minutes before closing
(NB. Admission prices vary on some days during the season for special events.

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Tel: 0151 228 5311 

Martin Mere
WWT Martin Mere is run by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, a charity working to save wetlands for wildlife and people.WWT was founded by the artist and naturalist, the late Sir Peter Scott, in 1946 on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire. Sir Peter believed in bringing wildlife and people together for the benefit of both.When you visit Martin Mere you come into close contact with wetlands and their wildlife. You can get close enough to feed some of the birds straight from your hand.

Location: The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, Martin Mere, Burscough, Nr Ormskirk, Lancs L40 0TA. For multimap click here

Opening times: 9 - 5.30pm

Admission:

Individual: £5.95

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Tel: 01704 895181

Millbrook Park Millennium Green
As part of the Millennium Commission project Millbrook Park was transformed into Millbrook Park Millennium Green with the support and help of the local community. In December 2000 the first phase of the creation works on the Millennium Green were completed.

Millbrook Park Millennium Green is an expansive area of public open space that provides an impressive backdrop to St. Chads Church. The Park has a definite 'countryside feel', with Kirkby Brook running through the middle of the site and trees bordering the fringes.

Location: University of Liverpool Environmental & Horticultural Research Station, Neston, South Wirral, CH64 4AY. For multimap click here

Opening times: Open daily

Admission: Free

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National Wildflower Centre
The National Wildflower Centre aims to encourage the creation of new wildflower landscapes for the benefit of people and wildlife. We call this creative conservation.
As a millennium project, developed with £4m of funding, nwc is open to visitors for a wildflower day out. In addition, it is a resource centre for education, life long learning, demonstrations and research to promote the importance of wildflowers in the environment.

Location: The National Wildflower Centre, Court Hey Park, Knowsley, L16 3NA. For multimap click here

Opening times: 10 - 5.00pm (April 1st - Sept 30th)

Admission:

Adults: £3.00

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Tel: 0151 738 1913 

Ness Botanic Gardens
In 1898, Arthur Kilpin Bulley, a Liverpool cotton broker, founded Ness Gardens by building his house on a gorse covered sandstone outcrop. He systematically incorporated surrounding fields into what has now become one of the country's leading botanic gardens, a learning garden with plant introductions from all over the world. On his behalf, pioneering plant collectors scoured the temperate regions of the Far East for alpine and hardy plants which could be cultivated in our climate.After his death the gardens were bequeathed to the University of Liverpool by his daughter in 1948. A notable garden of international repute, it continues its excellence in research, conservation and public education.

Location: University of Liverpool Environmental & Horticultural Research Station, Neston Road, Neston, Wirral, CH64 4AY. For multimap click here

Opening times: Open daily from 9.30am

Admission: Charges Apply

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Tel: 0151 353 0123 

Sefton Park
Sefton Park is a glorious rolling Victorian parkland. The park is surrounded by a roadway lined with flowering trees and interlaced with rambling carriage drives in keeping with its Victorian design. The chief gardener to the City of Paris in 1867, Edouard Andre, won a competition to design the park. There are a number of lakes and ponds, woods and gardens and a magnificent Palm House.

Location: Sefton Park, Liverpool, L17 1AP. For multimap click here

Opening times: Open all year

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Tel: 0151 726 2415

Walton Hall and Gardens
Walton Hall Gardens was originally part of a much larger country estate purchased in 1812 by the Greenall family, famous for their success in the brewing industry. The Hall itself was built in Elizabethan style during the 1830's, designed by Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster, who later became famous for the Gothic revival in architecture. The Estate was bought by Warrington Borough Council in 1941 and has been enjoyed as a park since 1945.

Location: Walton Lea Road, Higher Walton, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 6SN. For multimap click here

Opening times:
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Tel: 01925 601617

Wirral Country Park
Wirral Country Park is a place of contrasts. Badgers and foxes hunt the quieter parts, birds nest in the dense hedges or feed on the berries in winter, and you may see up to 10 kinds of butterfly in summer. Head for the 60 feet high, boulder-clay cliffs and look out over the Dee Estuary and you'll smell the tang of mud and salt, feel the sea breeze and get a sense of space quite unlike the enclosed, inland Wirral Way.

Location : Opening Times : Open all year round
Website : www.wirral.gov.uk/er/wcp.htm Admission : Open all year round

Location: Thurstaston Visitor Centre, Wirral Country Park, Station Road, Thurstaston, Wirral, Merseyside CH61 OHN. For multimap click here

Opening times: Open all year round
Admission: Open all year round

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Tel: 0151 648 4371 / 648 3884