Great Altcar
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Great Altcar is a village and civil parish in West Lancashire, close to Formby on the West Lancashire Coastal Plain. The name Altcar is Norse meaning 'marsh by the Alt'. The church of St Michael and All Angels is a Woodframed structure dating from 1879.
The area is now intensively farmed. An area called The Moss is situated to the north, it 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. The range, established in 1860, that bears the name Altcar is actually in Hightown.
[edit] Geography
| Ainsdale | North: Southport | |
| West: Little Altcar, Formby, Liverpool Bay | Great Altcar | East: Ormskirk |
| Hightown | South: River Alt, Liverpool | Maghull |
Great Altcar is on the B5195. It was served by Altcar and Hillhouse railway station on the Cheshire Lines Committee Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Railway Southport Extension. until July 1952.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Aerial photo
- http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/altcar.htm
- Altcar and Hillhouse railway station photographs
- Altcar Bob
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