Prescot: facts

At a glance

• Country: United Kingdom
• Region: England
• Administrative status: seat of a third-order administrative division (GeoNames code PPLA3)
• Population: approximately 40,889
• Coordinates: 53.4295° N, 2.8003° W
• Time zone: Europe/London (UTC+00:00 standard, UTC+01:00 daylight saving time)
• Currency: Pound (GBP)
• Distance to the capital, London: 280 km (174 mi), straight line

Getting there

• Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL): 11 km (7 mi), straight line
• Manchester Airport (MAN): 36 km (22 mi), straight line
• Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA): 89 km (56 mi), straight line

Nearby

• Eccleston: 2.5 km (1.6 mi)
• Rainhill: 2.7 km (1.7 mi)
• Huyton: 3.3 km (2.0 mi)
• Knowsley: 4.5 km (2.8 mi)
• St Helens: 5.0 km (3.1 mi)
• Nearest place with over 100,000 inhabitants: St Helens, 5.0 km (3.1 mi)