Great Altcar

Human settlement in England

District

Region

53°32′56″N 3°01′16″W / 53.549°N 3.021°W / 53.549; -3.021

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.^[1] 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.

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

^ UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Great Altcar Parish (E04005306)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 26 March 2021.

Media related to Great Altcar at Wikimedia Commons

Liverpool Street Gallery - Liverpool 37
Aerial photo
https://web.archive.org/web/20080507134445/http://www.lancashirechurches.co.uk/altcar.htm
Altcar and Hillhouse railway station photographs
Altcar Bob

v t e Geography of West Lancashire
Towns	Ormskirk Skelmersdale
Civil parishes	Aughton Bickerstaffe Bispham Burscough Dalton Downholland Great Altcar Halsall Hesketh-with-Becconsall Hilldale Lathom Lathom South Newburgh North Meols Parbold Rufford Scarisbrick Simonswood Tarleton Up Holland Wrightington
Other villages and hamlets	Andertons Mill Appley Bridge Banks Barrow Nook Barton Bispham Green Downholland Cross Drummersdale Haskayne Hesketh Bank Holmes Holmeswood Hoscar Hundred End Hunger Hill Mere Brow Roby Mill Shirdley Hill Sollom Tarlscough Westhead Wrightington Bar
Topography	Leeds and Liverpool Canal Martin Mere (WWT Martin Mere) Mere Sands Wood River Douglas River Tawd West Lancashire Coastal Plain