Day-time in Liverpool
Coast
Liverpool city centre has an awe-inspiring range of museums, theatres and galleries and a broad range of attractions. However, for something more green and tranquil you can find a wealth of coastline, countryside and parkland throughout Merseyside.
Merseyside’s enviable waterfront spans over 120km of attractive coastline that stretches from Southport to Wirral which features a significant amount of dedicated nature conservation land.
If you take a famous ferry across the River Mersey to Wirral you will find a shining example of town centre green-space. Birkenhead Park, created between 1843 and 1847, was the world’s first public park and the model for many other projects, including Central Park in New York.
Large areas of the eastern side of the Wirral peninsula, which borders on the River Dee, are dedicated to the Wirral Country Park. Here lie numerous areas of special scientific interest and some of the most picturesque countryside in the whole of England’s North West.
One of the finest views offered of the River Dee estuary is from the village of West Kirby in Wirral, where you can watch Atlantic Grey Seals bask on the sandbanks off the beautiful Hilbre Islands.