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Dist:0.2km<br/>Lilac Cottages, Bidston. Note the buttressed walls of the building on the right.
©Sue Adair
Dist:0.2km<br/>The body of Bidston's old parish church was rebuilt in the mid-19th century by the architects W. & J. Hay, but the west tower has been dated to between 1504-1521. The text on the flag reads "Jesus is King".
©James Yardley
Dist:0.3km<br/>St Oswald's is an ancient parish church, originally serving the townships of Bidston cum Ford, Birkenhead. Further information on http://www.mikekemble.com/mside/bidston.html
©Sue Adair
Dist:0.3km<br/>Compare with Ben Brooksbank's 1961 photo www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1797460 Merseyrail's Wirral Line still runs straight ahead towards West Kirby, but now passes beneath the M53 motorway which continues along the viaduct to the right, leading to the Kingsway Tunnel. The former Great Central branch to Wrexham (now branded as the Borderlands Line) curves sharply away to the left. The old signal box is gone and there is new platform furniture, but the building on the island platform is recognisably the same. As at other locations on this line, nature, in the form of shrubs and bushes, has encroached almost to the margins of the trackbed and the site of the old LNER sidings is now completely overgrown.
©James Yardley
Dist:0.3km<br/>A stone cross with cast metal panels naming those who lost their lives in the first world war. For names see http://www.carlscam.com/warmem/bidston.htm
©Sue Adair
Dist:0.3km<br/>The train arrives from Wrexham while in the distance can be seen a train approaching from West Kirby on the Mersey rail system.
©roger geach
Dist:0.3km<br/>Taken from the footbridge at Bidston Station, facing in the direction of Birkenhead North.
©E Pollock
Dist:0.3km<br/>This unusual looking farmhouse is medieval, it is situated opposite St Oswald's Church in Bidston Village. Once thought to have been a monastic building, it was built on thirteen different levels with thirteen flights of stairs, no two rooms being built on the same level, as can be seen by the position of the windows.
©Sue Adair
Dist:0.4km<br/>Tracks to the left for Wrexham, straight on for West Kirby
©Raymond Knapman
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©Thor Stone
Dist:0.4km<br/>Electric Multiple Unit, Class 508, unit number 104, stops at Bidston with an afternoon West Kirby to Liverpool service.
©E Pollock
Dist:0.4km<br/>Bidston is on the West Kirby branch of the Wirral lines and has trains every 15 minutes in each direction to Liverpool and West Kirby. Bidston is also the northern terminus of the Borderlands Line to Wrexham.
©David Quinn
Dist:0.4km<br/>Stone farm, formerly the Ring o' Bells Inn at the junction of School Lane with Fender Lane. The last landlord, Simon Croft, also one of the inn's best customers, did little to discourage drunken behaviour, which distressed the churchgoers and led to the inn being closed down in 1868 leaving the village with no licensed premises.
©Sue Adair
Dist:0.4km<br/>View westward, towards West Kirby (electrified Wirral Railway, from Birkenhead and Liverpool) and ex-GC line to Wrexham curving to left. Lines on left led to Bidston Sidings (ex-LNER).
©Ben Brooksbank
Dist:0.4km<br/>A train from West Kirby arrives at the Junction station of Bidstone.
©roger geach

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