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Population
  
213 (2011)

Civil parish
  
Great Altcar

Country
  
Shire county
  
District
  
UK parliament constituency
  
OS grid reference
  
SD323063

Region
  
Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Local time
  
Thursday 7:19 AM

Dialling code
  
01704

Great Altcar

Weather
  
9°C, Wind W at 39 km/h, 84% Humidity

Great Altcar is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, England, close to Formby on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. The population as taken at the 2011 census was 213. The name Altcar is Norse meaning "marsh by the Alt". The church of St Michael and All Angels is a timber framed structure dating from 1879.

Contents

Map of Great Altcar, Liverpool, UK

The area is now intensively farmed. An area called The Moss is situated to the north, and is characterized by drainage dykes.

Altcar hosted hare coursing's Waterloo Cup from 1836 to 2005, originally with the patronage of William Philip Molyneux, 2nd Earl of Sefton. Altcar Training Camp, established in 1860, is actually in Hightown.

Geography

Great Altcar is on the B5195 road. It was served by Altcar and Hillhouse railway station on the Cheshire Lines Committee Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway Southport Extension until July 1952.

References

Great Altcar Wikipedia


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