Museum · Royal Albert Dock, Merseyside, England
Merseyside Maritime Museum
The Merseyside Maritime Museum is National Museums Liverpool's museum of the city's seafaring history, in a warehouse at the Royal Albert Dock.
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city in Merseyside, England, whose waterfront on the Mersey includes the Royal Albert Dock, opened in 1846; the Metropolitan Cathedral's history page calls mid-19th-century Liverpool a thriving port.
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Historic site · Waterfront, Merseyside, England
Royal Albert Dock
The Royal Albert Dock is the dock and warehouse complex on Liverpool's waterfront, opened in 1846 and now home to museums, attractions, shops and restaurants.
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Gallery · Merseyside, England
Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery is National Museums Liverpool's art gallery on William Brown Street in Liverpool, with paintings, sculpture and decorative art from the 13th century to the present.
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Church · Mount Pleasant, Merseyside, England
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, is the Catholic cathedral on Mount Pleasant in Liverpool: Frederick Gibberd's circular building, consecrated in 1967, with the crypt of Edwin Lutyens' earlier design.
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Church · Merseyside, England
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of the Diocese of Liverpool, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, in central Liverpool.
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Travel Guide01
England, Great Britain or the United Kingdom: what each name covers
The United Kingdom is Great Britain plus Northern Ireland, Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales, and England is one of the UK's four countries. This article sets out those definitions from UK legislation and government pages, shows where the difference turns up on food labels, number plates, heritage bodies and maps, and says how XTOUR files its UK destinations.
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Travel Guide02
United Kingdom travel guide: where to base yourself, and what each base is for
London, in England, and Edinburgh, Scotland's capital, come first; Bath, York, Oxford, Cambridge and Canterbury are smaller English bases, each built around a World Heritage site, a cathedral or a university; Cardiff, Glasgow, Inverness, Belfast and Liverpool cover Wales, the rest of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north-west of England. This guide says what each base is for, which well-known sights are reached from a base rather than in it, and what XTOUR does not state.
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Travel Guide03
UNESCO World Heritage sites in the United Kingdom: the list, the overseas four and what XTOUR covers
The UK National Commission for UNESCO counts 35 World Heritage properties in the UK and its Overseas Territories, and its own list shows 36 entries. This article lists every entry with the year and counties the Commission gives, separates the four overseas properties, notes Liverpool's 2021 removal, and says which sites XTOUR's destinations and guides cover.
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Destination information last verified: October 11, 2026
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