Venues

Directions to the Church and reception venue can be found at the bottom of this page.

The Church

The Wedding of Mr. Stuart Feltham and Miss Victoria Shearing will take place at Noon on the 27th of August at St. James Church, New Brighton. We would be grateful if you could be in your seats 15 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony. For those of you using Sat. Nav. systems to find the Church, the full address is:

St James Church
Albion Street
New Brighton
Wirral
CH45 9LF
View on Google Maps.

The Reception & Evening

The Reception will take place in a marquee at Church Farm, Thurstaston. Guests attending the day time reception should go to Church Farm directly from the Church (directions at the bottom of the page). For those wanting to use a Sat Nav system, the full address is:

Church Farm
Church Lane
Thurstaston
Wirral
CH61 0HW
Tel: 0151 648 7838

Entrance to the Church Farm reception is via the normal farm shop entrance, marked on the google map below. However, please be aware that Church Lane is a one way street not accessible from Telegraph Road, so please follow the directions from the Church at the bottom of the page. On your arrival there will be someone to direct you to a suitable parking spot.

Evening guests should arrive by the same entrance from 7:00pm. There should be someone on hand to direct you to suitable parking. And a handy route planner is available on the Church Farm website.

Directions

To the Church from the M53 Northbound

From the M53 Northbound leave at Junction 1 and take the 1st exit from the roundabout, signposted New Brighton - A554.
Follow the road for just over a mile and across a roundabout (2nd exit) to a second roundabout by the sea wall and turn right (2nd exit).
Continue along the road until you reach another roundabout with a clown sculpture and continue straight on (1st exit).
Again, follow the road to the next roundabout and turn right (2nd exit) up the hill.
Continue up the hill until you reach a set of traffic lights at a cross roads with a Co-Op supermarket on your left. Continue through the lights and take the first right onto Albion Street.
The Church is about 200m on the right.

To the Church from Liverpool

From Liverpool take the Kingsway Tunnel (Wallasey Tunnel) and once through the toll booths, keep right and continue straight on signposted for New Brighton and M53.
Just after the speed limit changes to 50mph take the exit left signposted for New Brighton and move into the left hand lane of the road you're joining.
At the roundabout take the 3rd exit, signposted New Brighton - A554. Follow the road for just over a mile and across a roundabout (2nd exit) to a second roundabout by the sea wall and turn right (2nd exit).
Continue along the road until you reach another roundabout with a clown sculpture and continue straight on (1st exit).
Again, follow the road to the next roundabout and turn right (2nd exit) up the hill.
Continue up the hill until you reach a set of traffic lights at a cross roads with a Co-Op supermarket on your left. Continue through the lights and take the first right onto Albion Street.
The Church is about 200m on the right.

To the Reception from the Church

From Albion Street, return to the T-Junction at the top of the road by passing the Church on your left. At the Junction turn left.
Continue down the road, through the set of traffic lights by the Co-Op, and at the roundabout turn left (1st exit).
Cross 3 roundabouts (all 2nd exit) and at the 4th turn left (1st exit).
Cross the next roundabout (2nd exit) and continue along the road until you reach the large roundabout and join the M53 Southbound (3rd exit) signposted for Chester.
Keep right, continue along the M53 and leave at Junction 3 signposted Birkenhead and Heswall. Take the 4th exit from the roundabout and merge onto the A552, signposted for Upton and Heswall.
Once on the A552 keep left through 2 sets of traffic lights. Shortly after the lights is a speed camera (Speed limit 40Mph). Continue up the road and through a set of pedestrian lights. At the next set of lights, where the road splits, turn left onto the A551 signposted for Heswall (B5138).
At the roundabout turn right (2nd exit) onto Thingwall Road East - B5138 signposted for Heswall.
Follow the road for about 2 miles. Once you've passed the Harvest Mouse Pub, unmissable because of the windmill facing the road, you will shortly meet a row of shops including an HSBC and several other banks and estate agents. At the traffic lights (facing Italia Lighting and Interiors) turn right onto Telegraph Road - A540 signposted for Hoylake.
Follow the road for about a mile. Once you reach the national speed limit and fields, continue for about a mile, and at the roundabout take the first exit onto Station Road.
At the T-Junction turn left and follow the road past the church and round to the left. Church Farm is on the right.
If you miss the entrance don't worry. You can turn left at the top of the road, return to the roundabout and try again!