Trains arrive from Liverpool's main stations every few minutes on the subterranean Merseyrail network, taking no more than 5 minutes. There are 5 stations, Hamilton Square being the best for the riverside, square and museum, Conway Park the best for the shopping district and Birkenhead Park the best for the famous park. Birkenhead can also be reached by the Mersey tunnels from Liverpool (toll payable) or the M53 from Chester. Alternatively, the famous Ferry cross the Mersey deposits you in the riverside area of the town.

Tranmere Rovers Football Club, Birkenhead Park, Wirral Transport Museum, Shore Road Pumping Station, Birkenhead Priory

Tranmere Rovers Football Club (about 40 minutes walk from Rock Ferry station). Although this club has always lived in the shadow of Liverpool it has a long tradition and a great family atmosphere

Hamilton Square, a beautiful Georgian Square with gardens in the middle designed by James Gillespie Graham.

 

Birkenhead Park  (5 minutes walk from Birkenhead Park Station), It is generally acknowledged as the first publicly-funded civic park in Britain. American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted incorporated many of the features he observed into his design for New York's Central Park.

 

Wirral Transport Museum,

 

Shore Road Pumping Station, Open weekend afternoons, closed weekdays except by appointment and during school holidays when open W-Su afternoons.

 

Birkenhead Priory

The riverside by the Mersey affords an excellent panorama of Liverpool city centre including all of its iconic buildings. There is also a wealth of interesting industrial buildings in this area, reflecting the town's shipbuilding heritage.

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