Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Number of sights 18 sights
Distance 7.4 km
Ascend 211 m
Descend 187 m

Explore Liverpool in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in LiverpoolIndividual Sights in Liverpool

Sight 1: Memorial to Heroes of the Marine Engine Room

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Memorial to Heroes of the Marine Engine Room

The Memorial to Heroes of the Marine Engine Room is a granite monument located on St. Nicholas Place, at the Pier Head, in Liverpool, England.

Wikipedia: Memorial to Heroes of the Marine Engine Room (EN)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Royal Liver Building

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The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building in Liverpool, England. It is located at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront. It was also part of Liverpool's formerly UNESCO-designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City.

Wikipedia: Royal Liver Building (EN), Heritage Website

444 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 3: Museum of Liverpool

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The Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, tells the story of Liverpool and its people, and reflects the city's global significance. It opened in 2011 as newest addition to the National Museums Liverpool group replacing the former Museum of Liverpool Life. The museum is housed in a new purpose-built building on the Mann Island site at the Pier Head.

Wikipedia: Museum of Liverpool (EN), Website

312 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Cunard Building

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The Cunard Building is a Grade II* listed building in Liverpool, England. It is located at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Royal Liver Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront. It is also part of Liverpool's former UNESCO designated World Heritage, the Maritime Mercantile City.

Wikipedia: Cunard Building (EN), Heritage Website

76 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 5: British Music Experience

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The British Music Experience is a permanent exhibition in the Cunard Building on Liverpool's waterfront. It began as an exhibition, taking up more than 20,000 square feet, installed into The O2 Bubble, part of The O2 in Greenwich, London. Opened with a private concert by The View in March 2009, it featured a retrospective look at the British music industry since 1944. The museum closed on 30 April 2014 and announced it was looking for a new home. On 10 September 2015 it was confirmed that the new home for the British Music Experience would be the Cunard Building on Liverpool's waterfront.

Wikipedia: British Music Experience (EN)

271 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Our Lady & Saint Nicholas

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Our Lady & Saint Nicholas

The Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is the Anglican parish church of Liverpool. The site is said to have been a place of worship since at least the 1250s. The church is situated close to the River Mersey near the Pier Head. The Chapel of St Nicholas was built on the site of St Mary del Quay, which in 1355 was determined to be too small for the growing borough of Liverpool. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is an active parish church in the diocese of Liverpool, the archdeaconry of Liverpool and the deanery of Liverpool North. It is part of the Greater Churches Group. From 1813 to 1868 the church was the tallest building in Liverpool at 174 feet [53 m], but then surpassed by the Welsh Presbyterian Church in Toxteth.

Wikipedia: Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas, Liverpool (EN), Website, Heritage Website

274 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Western Approaches

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The Western Approaches Museum in Liverpool, England, is a museum chronicling the work of Western Approaches Command around Atlantic convoys, combating the U-boat menace and the Battle of the Atlantic. Set in the restored former Second World War command centre responsible for coordinating the effort, the museum consists of re-opened rooms housing artefacts from when the command centre was in active use.

Wikipedia: Western Approaches Museum (EN), Website

1447 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 8: Nelson Monument

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Nelson Monument

The Nelson Monument is a monument to Admiral Horatio Nelson, in Exchange Flags, Liverpool, England. It was designed by Matthew Cotes Wyatt and sculpted by Richard Westmacott. It stands to the north of the Town Hall and was unveiled in 1813.

Wikipedia: Nelson Monument, Liverpool (EN)

878 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 9: Superlambanana

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Superlambanana is a bright yellow sculpture in Liverpool, England. Weighing almost 8 tonnes and standing at 5.2 metres tall, it is intended to be a cross between a banana and a lamb and was designed by New York City-based Japanese artist Taro Chiezo. It currently stands in Tithebarn Street, outside the Avril Robarts Library of Liverpool John Moores University, having previously been located on Wapping near the Albert Dock.

Wikipedia: Superlambanana (EN), Url

957 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 10: Liverpool Town Hall

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Liverpool Town HallMiguel Mendez from Malahide, Ireland / CC BY 2.0

Liverpool Town Hall stands in High Street at its junction with Dale Street, Castle Street, and Water Street in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and described in the list as "one of the finest surviving 18th-century town halls". The authors of the Buildings of England series refer to its "magnificent scale", and consider it to be "probably the grandest ...suite of civic rooms in the country", and "an outstanding and complete example of late Georgian decoration".

Wikipedia: Liverpool Town Hall (EN), Heritage Website

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 11: Martins Bank Building

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The Martins Bank Building is a Grade II* listed building and former bank located on Water Street, Liverpool, England. Built as the head office of the now defunct Martins Bank, the seven storey classical style building has been described as one of the country's best examples of an interwar classical building.

Wikipedia: Martins Bank Building (EN), Heritage Website

1098 meters / 13 minutes

Sight 12: Saint George's Hall

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Saint George's HallTony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK / CC BY 2.0

St George's Hall is a building on St George's Place, opposite Lime Street railway station in the centre of Liverpool, England. Opened in 1854, it is a Neoclassical building which contains concert halls and law courts, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. On the east side of the hall, between it and the railway station, is St George's Plateau and on the west side are St John's Gardens. The hall is included in the William Brown Street conservation area.

Wikipedia: St George's Hall, Liverpool (EN), Heritage Website

69 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: St John's Gardens

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St John's Gardens may refer to the following:St John's Gardens, Cardiff, Wales, formerly part of the graveyard of St John's church St John's Gardens, Liverpool, England, a public space in the city centre St John's Gardens, Manchester, England, formerly the site of St John's church and graveyard St John's Gardens, part of the church of St John Clerkenwell, London

Wikipedia: St John's Gardens (EN)

174 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 14: World Museum Liverpool

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World Museum is a large museum in Liverpool, England which has extensive collections covering archaeology, ethnology and the natural and physical sciences. Special attractions include the Natural History Centre and a planetarium. Entry to the museum is free. The museum is part of National Museums Liverpool.

Wikipedia: World Museum (EN), Website

297 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 15: Wellington's Column

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Wellington's Column Original uploader was Chowells at en.wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0

Wellington's Column, or the Waterloo Memorial, is a monument to the Duke of Wellington standing on the corner of William Brown Street and Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.

Wikipedia: Wellington's Column (EN)

119 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Walker Art Gallery

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The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group.

Wikipedia: Walker Art Gallery (EN), Website, Heritage Website

18 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Steble Fountain

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Steble Fountain

The Steble Fountain stands in William Brown Street, Liverpool, England, to the west of Wellington's Column. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It was donated to the city by a former mayor to fill a vacant plot to the west of the column. For much of the 2010s and 2020s, the fountain has needed repair and has not functioned.

Wikipedia: Steble Fountain (EN)

548 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 18: Liverpool Empire Theatre

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The Liverpool Empire Theatre is a theatre on the corner of Lime Street in Liverpool, England. The playhouse, which opened in 1925, is the second one to be built on the site. It has the largest two-tier auditorium in the United Kingdom and can seat 2,348 people.

Wikipedia: Liverpool Empire Theatre (EN), Website, Heritage Website

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