Sonnet Gate

Great commuter links

Sonnet Gate has outstanding local and national transport connections. The M57 and the M62, both within five minutes drive, provide fast routes to Liverpool, around 20 minutes away, and Manchester. Trains from Prescot Station, less than half a mile from the development, run approximately twice an hour between Liverpool Lime Street, St Helens and Wigan, with some services carrying on to Preston and Blackpool. The journey into Lime Street takes just over 20 minutes. Whiston Station, a mile to the south, offers services to Manchester Piccadilly and Manchester Airport, and buses between Liverpool, St Helens and other local destinations stop six hundred yards away.

Everything on your doorstep

Within half a mile there is a large Tesco Extra store, part of the Cables Shopping Park which incorporates an M&S Food Store, Boots and other high street names. A local shopping precinct at Molyneux Drive includes a convenience store, an off-licence, a pharmacy, hairdressers and fast food takeaways. Prescot’s charming, partially pedestrianised town centre presents a mixture of independent retailers, pubs and cafés, complementing the national chains represented in the covered Prescot Shopping Centre, where there is also a local history museum.

Schools in Prescot

Nearby schools include St Mary and St Paul’s C of E Primary School and Whiston Willis Primary Academy, both assessed as Good by Ofsted. Secondary education is provided by the Prescot School to the north of the town centre, and St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School in Whiston. All are within walking distance of the development.