Crosby Beach(Crosby Blitz Beach)

If you get hungry, there are many great restaurants near Crosby Beach.  The Azul Monkey is a buffet restaurant that offers many delicious dishes for breakfast and brunch including burgers, English-style breakfast platter, pancakes, eggs, and avocado toast.  The Fat Italian is an Italian restaurant that offers a variety of delicious dishes including pizzas, pasta, seafood, roast lamb, and steak.  Chicago Bar & Grill offers some amazing American dishes including pizza, burgers, steaks, salads, pork fillet, and chicken.  Sesay's Bar and Kitchen offers a variety of excellent locally-inspired dishes for breakfast and lunch including jacket potatoes, calamari, Sunday roasts, wraps, and burgers – it also offers live music performances.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby restaurant, College Fryer is known for serving excellent Asian dishes including fried rice, soups, roast duck, and chicken chop suey – it also offers some great local English dishes.

If you are looking for hotels near Crosby Beach, there are many great nearby options.  The 4-Star Titanic Hotel offers many amenities including a spa, a pool, a bar, a lounge, common sitting areas, a gym, and a restaurant.  The Hotel Anfield offers many amenities including a garden, a patio, multiple bars, and a terrace.  The 3-Star Royal Hotel Crosby is another great hotel that offers a restaurant and a lounge bar and it is located conveniently close to some of the major attractions around Crosby.  A more affordable hotel is the 3-Star Marlborough Hotel that offers many amenities including a bar, a lawn, and complimentary breakfast.  If you are looking for another good and affordable nearby hotel, the 3-Star Woodlands Guest House is located conveniently close to some of the major landmarks around Crosby.

Crosby Beach has lifeguards between 10 am and 6 pm.  In addition to lifeguards, the beach and the area near it have many other amenities including grassy lawns, walking paths, a playground, a walkway, restrooms, and bike rental facilities.

Dogs are allowed at the beach.

Crosby Beach offers many fun activities including sunbathing, beachcombing, fishing, hiking, picnicking, biking, boating, and wildlife watching.

This beach is usually unsafe for water activities because the water here is frequently known to have dangerous rip currents and extremely strong waves, especially during high tides – in addition, there is a quicksand along the shoreline where visitors are frequently known to get trapped.  Drowning-related incidents have also been reported near the beach.  If you like birdwatching, you can see many kinds of migratory and resident birds around this beach.  If you like beachcombing, you can comb the beach for interesting sea glass pieces.

If you like taking pictures with excellent views, Crosby Beach offers amazing Instagram-worthy views of the Merseyside shoreline, a nearby offshore wind farm, and the Irish Sea, particularly at sunset – you can also see a variety of cruise ships and container ships near this beach, because of its proximity to the nearby Port of Liverpool.  If you like hiking, there is a 21-mile-long hiking trail near this beach named the Sefton Coastal Path that offers a fun way to explore the local coastal landscape and it also offers amazing views of the northwestern English shoreline.

Crosby Coastal Park is located just adjacent to Crosby Beach – this park has a lake for boating, gardens, an adventure center, grasslands, and a playground.  It offers a variety of other fun activities including birdwatching, picnicking, and kite-flying – it also offers amazing views of the northwestern English shoreline.

Crosby Beach does not offer wheelchair access to visitors with disabilities, so please plan accordingly.

Getting to Crosby Beach is easy and there are two main entrances for this beach – one of the entrances is located at 30 Burbo Bank Road North and it has a paid parking lot.  The other main entrance is located at the end of Mariners Road and has a free parking lot.  In addition to these two main entrances, there is another paid parking lot for the beach at 1 Blucher Street – once you park here, you can easily walk to Crosby Beach through a walking trail.

In addition to these parking lots, there are multiple free street parking spaces near the beach – some of the nearby roads that offer street parking spaces including Cambridge Road, Mariners Road, Blucher Street, and Hall Road West.

As an alternate travel option, you can also visit this beach by train – a local train service named Merseyrail operates a train service near the beach.  The entrance to this beach is just a short walk away from Merseyrail’s “Blundellsands and Crosby” station – if you are planning to take a train to this beach, you can visit Merseyrail’s official website for more information regarding the ticket prices.

A public artwork named “Another Place” is located at Crosby Beach – Another Place was created by artist Antony Gormley and it consists of 100 cast iron statues facing the sea that are modeled after the artist’s body.  In addition, the beach was also featured in the 2012 British television show Good Cop.

There are many attractions near Crosby Beach.  Rimrose Valley Country Park is a park that is located between a canal and local railway line – this park has multiple habitats including wetlands and grasslands and it has many local plant species.  You can see many animal species while hiking here including warbler birds, butterflies, and dragonflies.  If you like golf, the West Lancashire Golf Club was founded in 1873 and it is one of the oldest golf clubs in England – this golf club has two nine-hole golf courses and it offers a fun and challenging golf experience, along with amazing ocean views.  The Aintree Racecourse is a popular racecourse that was opened in 1829 and it offers a variety of fun and thrilling horse races – one of the famous horse races that it hosts is the Grand National Steeplechase.  It also offers a golf course and it also sometimes hosts motor racing events and musical concerts.  If you like shopping, the village of Crosby has a variety of interesting shopping stores, along with a variety of exciting bars and pubs.  If you are looking for another attraction near the beach, Rice Lane City Farm is a farm that is a 17-minute-drive away and home to many interesting local domestic animals including ryeland sheep, berkshire pigs, a duck, and a donkey.  This farm also has a trail that goes around woodlands and offers an excellent wildlife watching experience.